Re: A little off-topic help.

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From: Rick Martin
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 00:00

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Peter G. Strangman wrote:
> 
> A number of people seem to get confused with:
  <snip lesson in commonly-confused words>
> When considering "yours", "theirs" "its" etc. remember that
> "our's" is the exception requiring an aposrophe.

Really?  I disagree with you on this one.  I thought "ours" fitted that
pattern.  e.g. "Your phone number starts DCCCII but ours starts CMLXXIII."

It's the possessive for a specified subject which takes the apostrophe, as
in "My phone's number starts..."

BICBW

> Sorry about that, but the rules are simple enough and
> easily learned. It seems that they are no longer taught
> in our schools.    8-(

Sad, but true.

FU set.

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From: Rick Martin <rick.martin@pixelhyphengroup.com>
Subject: Re: A little off-topic help.
Date: 1998/04/14
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