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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by mkl on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:35AM (#25274844)
What a strange apostrophe (it's in the official list). Or am I misreading it?
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by 867-5309 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:48AM (#25274922)
Older Adults' is a shortened term for certain divisions e.g. Older Adults' Mental Health in UK medical circles. it's a bit of a catapostrophe, but I suspect it was copied, pasted, then added to without due attention
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by ape4 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:59AM (#25278398)
That apostrophe is bad for my mental health
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by jcims on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:32AM (#25275160)
Isn’t it just plural possessive?
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by hardlianotion on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:08AM (#25276974)
It is not. Its is possessive, and I don’t think I would use it to describe more than one thing.
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by jcims on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:28AM (#25277156)
Daaaad get off my internet!
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK by HPsquared on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:22AM (#25277879)
"The resident, who is the property of the older adults..."
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