[Wikipedia-l] Apostrophe's

James Duffy jtdire at hotmail.com
Sun Oct 19 00:24:25 UTC 2003


Seen in an advertisement some years ago.

BIG MAC'S - 79p.

I kept wondering - Big Mac's /what/? Who is Big Mac?

And a car sales shop near me has the sign NEW CAR'S AVAILABLE.


AAAAAAGH!

JT

>From: "Jake Nelson" <jnelson at soncom.com>
>Reply-To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
>To: <wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Apostrophe's
>Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 04:53:28 -0500
>
>Peter Gervia wrote:
> > It's funny to watch someone debating its (oh, okay, his/her ;)) mother
> > tongue. :-)
> >
>Indeed. I spend far too much time doing this, too. :)
>
>-- Jake
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