Your August 26, 2010 "On Notice" Board
by grungedave on Aug 26, 2010 12:20 PM CDT
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PrintFor obvious reasons, this is subject to change throughout the season.
Nonetheless, here's my "On Notice" board as of today:
Consider yourselves warned!
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But obviously we will face Talent in South Beach in the championship, right?
So that makes 6 items.
Also, grungedave gets mad props if he also made the unreadable top and bottom lines NBA related and then intentionally cropped them. Confirm? Disconfirm?
Chuck Hayes's free throws.
An apostrophe at the end is only added whenever a noun is made both plural and possessive, and the pluralizing results in adding an “s”. Singular nouns already ending in “s” (mostly names) have an “apostrophe s” added, as do nouns that are irregularly pluralized (like women).
The way I remember it is that you can add one apostrophe and one “s” to each word, and if you use the “s” in pluralizing it, then you just add the apostrophe. But you never add just an apostrophe.
Your wiki link doesn't make him "wrong"
In fact, it seems to make him more correct if anything. Even though your use is fine in today’s world
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I found something as well which confirms grungedave's "contemporary usage" argument.
So I’m fine with simply saying that my stodgy classics nerdery is getting supplanted by slick modern nerdery.
But MY point is that part of the reason why TDS is awesome is that you never know when a grammar fight or Dr. Who reference or Arrested Development quote will pop up.
Even if I kinda intentionally started this one.
nevertheless
It’s a personal style choice either way. I hate extraneous uses of letters, commas or apostrophes (whereas I know you love your extra apostrophes, Lee! hahahaha)
citing my source (though I hate citing Wiki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
[Some] sources would demand possessive singulars like these: Senator Jones’s umbrella; Mephistopheles’s cat. On the other hand, some modern writers omit the extra s in all cases, and Chicago Manual of Style allows this as an "alternative practice".
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came up with it, Stephen T. Colbert.
I'm always right, this isn't conjecture, merely statement of fact.
LOLZ at Chuck Hayes' special mention ... Colbert is very perceptive
and yeah, as far as I know, you use apostrophe only after “s”
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