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Old 5th Sep 2000, 15:48
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JP Justice
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Addinf:

The apostrophe denotes possession or abbreviation - not plural. The greengrocers' apostrophe is sometimes all right, as in "Cauli's" but it has spread to "Potatoe's" etc.

And another thing - the useful asterisk * is usually rendered as Asterix. Damn that French comic. And another - nobody seems to know that Pacific is an ocean, and that specific is a different word entirely.

(Just the ramblings of someone who got his English degree 32 years ago!)