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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (137)1/2/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (3) of 4710
 
Jack--

For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

I'd have said, as you did at first, that it's a subjunctive. And also that it reminds me of the vomitous Phyllis Schafly.

But no one's (okay, only one person) got back to me on the appalling (mis)use of the apostrophe to indicate a plural. WHY do people do this? WHAT gave them the idea? Do they sit around thinking: "Gee, I mean more than ONE, so I'll emphasize it by writing "thing's"? Certainly they were never taught this in school--rotten as our schools are today, they're not THAT bad--nor, until recently, would they have seen it in print. So WHY?

I feel like an Old Fogey. And who was Fogey, anyway? Do we know?

Janice
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