🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Sep15.211600.26724@eff.org> mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:
>From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
>Subject: Re: Question for Charles Perez and Ted Frank
>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:16:00 GMT

>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.

Certainly better for flaming ;-).  But rather tenuous to pronounce.

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