Re: A little off-topic help.

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From: Sandy
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:00

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Peter@adelheid.demon.co.uk (Peter G. Strangman) wrote:

>
>I accept that modern usage probably tends towards omission
>of the apostrophe in "our's" (but I'm ancient). 

It's not that modern (well to me anyway). Sir Ernest Gowers wrote in
1954 that ours as a possessive does not have an apostrophe, and his
book implies that Fowler's Modern English Usage (I forget the date)
said the same.

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From: sandy@nospam.galaxycorp.com (Sandy)
Subject: Re: A little off-topic help.
Date: 1998/04/16
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