You could be right, Chris, it is no more than a vague recollection on my
part of something posted a while ago on an apostrophical mailing list (this
one, in fact) ;-)
Paging Frank/Bart/Wiliam!!
Piers
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From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 19 November 2013 06:12
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: McCulloch blower repair
Piers
I thought that that was the possessive in Dutch. But then I was going only
on some place names, e.g. 's Hertogenbosch.
Chris
On 18 Nov 13, at 23:29, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Granted, the 's usage does mark a "funny foreign word in the plural" -
> but that is in Dutch. Not English.
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