Who me? Surely not!
;-)
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Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chris Barker
Sent: 22 November 2006 19:24
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: The Truth out digital camera's
Simon, it's just possible that Piers is teasing. But I'm only guessing here
;-)
My view is that singular or plural does it, but I had assumed that singular
was more apposite.
Chris
On 22 Nov 2006, at 18:45, Simon Worby wrote:
> Piers Hemy wrote:
>
>> Simon, I am shocked at you! I know you don't, in honesty, believe
>> that a single grocer is responsible for misuse of the apostrophe.
>> No, I thought not. Ergo "Grocers'
>> apostrophe", if you pleas' :-)
>
> That's actually an interesting point.
>
> I think singular is correct.
>
> Trouble is ... I can't really explain why. I think it's the collective
> that suggests to me it should be singular.
>
> The world seems fairly split on it, with 503 Google hits for "grocer's
> apostrophe" and 252 for "grocers' apostrophe".
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