Dave Nereson wrote: > Didn't anybody go to school? Plurals don't take apostrophes. Dog, dogs, > cat, cats, piano, pianos, not piano's. ' Yes well, this is all very fine and interesting. Good Point.. I must say... I would like to point out tho that perhaps you are mis-reading a grammatical possesive form for being a plural. If that is indeed what you are doing, then I can certainly understand your confusement. While we do not say "there were 20 dog's in the bathtub" we certainly do say "What are you doing in the dog's bathtub", precisely so that we will not confuse the plural from the possesive. Some scholars may point out that the apostrophe for this grammatical construct should rightly be placed after the letter "s" hence dog's would be dogs' . This may be correct, yet as is usual the common usage ends up ruling the day. The use of the apostrophy in all other constructs places the notation between the s and the word itself, and I suspect the average Carl in the hotub finds it most appeasing there. Now... back to other matters. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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