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Thread #88001 Message #1650587
Posted By: Jim Dixon
17-Jan-06 - 09:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Plurals don't require apostrophes!
Subject: RE: BS: Plurals don't require apostrophes!
How apropos! This looks like an exciting read:The Times, January 14, 2006
I say potatoes and you say potato's
Should we care about aberrant apostrophes and other solecisms? Not according to one expert. But just wait for the outraged letters in green ink
HOW LANGUAGE WORKS
by David Crystal
Penguin, £22; 512pp
Reviewed by John Humphrys
Click to see the review