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Re:Common Errors in English Usage by brc on Friday October 01, 2010 @08:35AM (#1746820)
It's great, but try reading the one on apostrophe's and see if you can still get it right every single time. We need some sort of academy anglaise to make decisions on the language and exorcise the apostrophe once and for all. Cursed thing it is.
Re:Common Errors in English Usage by drv on Friday October 01, 2010 @01:05PM (#1747709)
I'm pretty sure you made an apostrophe mistake in "apostrohpe's" - the "s" is making "apostrophe" plural.
Re:Common Errors in English Usage by brc on Saturday October 02, 2010 @09:41AM (#1750411)
That was a stab at irony, which apparently flew over the heads of most readers.
Re:Common Errors in English Usage by absconditus on Friday October 01, 2010 @11:11AM (#1747261)
I do not understand where the confusion lies. In the vast majority of cases its use is simple.