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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (24)	1/1/1998 11:36:00 AM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 4710

Jack, it may sound stuffy because so many make the error and those that stick to the correct usage become "elitists" like my wife ( she is the one that polices my own vernacular). By the way, she was raised with a slavic language as her mother tongue, so we often go into comparative etymological discussions covering germanic (like English), latin (like french), slavic and semitic languages. When it comes to personal pronouns, I lose (but I am not getting loose (g)). Happy new year. Zeev

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (24)	1/1/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Another peeve: the increasing use of apostrophes to create a plural noun, as in "I had dinner with friend's" (or, worse yet, "I had dinner with freind's"). Why on earth would anyone do this? I can understand confusion about its/it's, but.... Yes, many people use an apostrophe when dealing with acronyms or numbers (1990's; VCR's). This is perhaps not really wrong, even if it makes me cringe; how, though, did it come to be extended to perfectly ordinary words?