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Subject:Re: Smash the Apophistry! From:"Marlene J. Geary" <marlene -at- NECA -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:30:34 -0500
>I, Mitch Berg, hereby promise to stop using the apostrophe to indicate
>possession. I'm doing this, not for my own convenience or from any
>sense of laziness, but to make the English-writing world a better place.
>
>Who's with me? Come on! To the barricades!
Here, here!! I'm with you!
Our company has already decided to phase out the usage of an apostrophe
where a letter or word for its own sake is pluralized:
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