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Who is tired of it?

Just that.

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The what?

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I called it the erroneous pluralizing apostrophe until I learned there was already an established name for it.

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You and your’s and your damn oranges’s and apple’s.

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Their more than one?

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This opens the door for consideration of those rocks that people love to place in front of their homes with all sorts of plural and possessive errors on them.

The Jones = one person whose last name is Jones.
The Jones' = multiple persons whose last name is Jone claim ownership.
The Jone's = one person whose last name is Jone claims ownership.


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Colourful for sure.


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Just a normal assortment of vegetable's.


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The apostrophe catastrophe.

Pluralizing with an apostrophe is just wrong. This being English, however, there are exceptions. One is with single digits; i.e, my phone number has two 8's.

This being the Campfire, these little lessons will have no effect.


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Grey area for sure.


"Maybe we're all happy."

"Go to the sporting goods store. From the files, obtain form 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership."
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Originally Posted by RockyRaab
The apostrophe catastrophe.

Pluralizing with an apostrophe is just wrong. This being English, however, there are exceptions. One is with single digits; i.e, my phone number has two 8's.

This being the Campfire, these little lessons will have no effect.


Thankfully so.


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Grey area for sure.
Like Gray’s Anatomy gray?

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A well travelled example to be sure.


"Maybe we're all happy."

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Originally Posted by hillestadj
*Greengrocers'
We donut halfve one heer in Iawo

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While we're on it - what about the Oxford comma?

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Green? Or Green’s?

And what’s behind the damn door?

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Originally Posted by slumlord
Originally Posted by hillestadj
*Greengrocers'
We donut halfve one heer in Iawo

Normally I ask WTF is (fill in the blank)... but my googler couldn't dig up anything on my Commodore.


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My biggest concern is with the Oxford comma and failure to use it. So there.


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