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Article #6Re: Question for Charles Perez and Ted Frank
From: exuptr
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:15
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:15
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In article <1992Sep15.153846.23943@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes:
>>Note the abusive Parent in Goofus' posting here, as well as the
>Oh, and by the way, it would be "Goofus's."
Sorry, leaving off the trailing "s" is permissible in contractions where
the preceeding letter is also an "s", in proper names. It is not ambiguous
since proper names cannot be plural.
Picky point, though. Your other corrections were right on.
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