[GEM Development] GEM FAQ
Peter Green
pspete1 at pnc.com.au
Tue Aug 24 23:16:57 PDT 2004
Ben A L Jemmett wrote:
> <>hypersensitive to grocers' apostrophes
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>Not butcher's apostrophe's? :)
>
>Regards,
>Ben A L Jemmett.
>(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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It's getting 'so bad that I 'su'spect that the apo'strophe i's about to
become a mere appendage to the letter "'s", without any other meaning!
I tell people, "If you can't get your apostrophes roughly right, it's
better to abandon them altogether than to install them randomly."
Peter
(another apostrophic pedant)
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