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Article #7Re: Question for Charles Perez and Ted Frank
From: Mike Godwin
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:16
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:16
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In article <exuptr.606.716584507@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes: >In article <1992Sep15.153846.23943@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Citecheck Hell) writes: > >>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. Strunk and White disagree, and I think their "rule" is a better one. --Mike -- Mike Godwin, |"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact mnemonic@eff.org| of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, (617) 864-0665 | both are transformed." EFF, Cambridge | --Carl Jung
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Newsgroups: alt.flame.spelling,misc.legal Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!convex!news.oc.com!eff!mnemonic From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) Subject: Re: Question for Charles Perez and Ted Frank Message-ID: <1992Sep15.211600.26724@eff.org> Originator: mnemonic@eff.org Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: eff.org Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation References: <1992Sep15.145914.21637@Princeton.EDU> <1992Sep15.153846.23943@midway.uchicago.edu> <exuptr.606.716584507@exu.ericsson.se> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:16:00 GMT Lines: 22