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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Janice Shell who wrote (138)1/2/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: Andy Dennie  Read Replies (2) of 4710
 
Regarding pluralizing via apostrophes:

I don't know how to explain it, but despite the fact that this usage bothers me too, I often find that I have committed the error myself. In other words, I know it's wrong, but somehow during the translation from brain to typed text, apostrophes have a way of creeping in unwanted. I often catch them when proofreading my own work.

I wonder how many others have had this experience, and how many of the occurrences we see daily are not the result of ignorance, but the same type of synaptic spasm that seems to afflict me.
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