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Apostrophe ( ' ) The apostrophe is used when leaving out a letter or number in a contraction, e.g. can't, wouldn't. The apostrophe is used for omitted letters, e.g. rock 'n' roll, and for omitted numbers, e.g. the class of '72, the '20s. The apo ...

A curious finding about the plural...

alt.english.usage

While researching the genitive as used in given and family names for a post to fr.lettres.langue.anglaise , I came across a curious situation involving the plural form of family names. A Google search for "the Jenkins were" and "the Jenkinses were" ...

Re: How to read "my boss' kid"?

Raymond S. Wise [nq:1]that's[/nq]
Because it's a matter of the written language, I have always assumed that the captioners are following an explicit rule. In fact, in a post to alt.english.usage a couple of years ago, I reported having read just such a rule:
See
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=47dd044c.0201230002.a60e20d%40posting.google.com&oe=UTF-8&ou...
or
http://tinyurl.com/22xue
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