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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (757)	1/20/1998 11:31:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (2) of 4710

Jack, Precisely! Twenty minutes with an English teacher and these grammar scofflaws would never again resort to such lazy speech patterns. And they would feel so proud of themselves! This brings me to another pet peeve, albeit one which might be too esoteric to be of general interest: What do you think of this new wave of leaving the apostrophes off diseases named for someone? To wit, Graves' disease becomes Graves disease, Down's syndrome becomes Down syndrome, etc. I have heard a couple of reasons for this but personally think that is is because some people don't want to be bothered with accurate placement of the apostrophe. Dorland's Medical Dictionary and Becky Brown have carved in granite that it shall be X ray when used as a noun and X-ray when used as a verb or adjective. However, The New Grammarians have spoken and have ruled that it is to be written as x-ray at all times--no exceptions. Somehow, I'm not comfortable with this and, I am sure, neither would be Conrad Roentgen. Another pet grammar peeve one hears and reads frequently is, "The reason is because . . ." I shudder at this too. Holly (desperately seeking a synonym for "pet peeve")

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