Excellent, John!
Further to Piers's point a few days ago, I reckon that most of what we are
losing in the language is important for one reason or another; and there is no
replacement for the apostrophe ...
It's the number of a subject that's one of my bugbears at the moment: "none",
"neither" etc ...
Chris
On 5 Jun 2010, at 17:46, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
> As an example of why the possessive apostrophe is still a necessity, Simon
> Carr's political sketch has no equal. he wrote,
> "Peter Lilley's wife tried to get into a Downing Street function saying, 'I'm
> one of the ministers' wives', The policeman: 'I couldn't let you in if you
> were the minister's only wife'." It's wonderful, but without the possessive
> apostrophe it would have been rendered meaningless.
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