[OT] How to use an apostrophe

[gordon stelter]

--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> What I want to know is how do you turn "Steinway"
> into a
> dangling participle ??

Well, I guess that would be when you hang the piano at
a religious celebration out the window.
     T
> 
> Stéphane Collin wrote:
> 
> > Hello list. Let me also propose a spelling for the
> > pluralization of Steinway.My logical suggestion
> depends on
> > what you mean when you say :"A Steinway", as this
> never
> > appears to be clear. If you mean a member of the
> family
> > called Steinway, like in this excerpt :
> >
> >      "And never forget you are a Steinway !"
> >
> >           (Henrich Engelhard Steinweg to one of
> >           his sons, when dying in 1871)
> >
> > then, the plural should be something like :
> >
> >      "And never forget you are Steinway bastards
> !"
> >
> >           (Carl Bechstein (Bechsteinszoon's)
> >           when proposed to sell his company to
> >           some US market tenors)
> >
> > But if you mean a grand piano of the famous make
> called
> > after it's pattent owner, like in this excerpt :
> >
> >      "Careful with that Steinway, Bob !"
> >
> >           (Bob's mother)
> >
> > then, the plural definetly should be :
> >
> >      "Careful with those Steinway grand pianos,
> Bill
> >      !"
> >
> >           (Bill's chief purser)
> >
> > Please notice that neither the generic noun
> Steinway, nor
> > the adjective grand get pluralized.  Only the
> common noun
> > piano is, as only this refers to the thing that is
> > actually pluralized.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Stéphane Collin
> > (from the Académie Française)
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> 
> 


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