Send me one, too, please. It would be helpful for people to see it with their own eyes, otherwise they might disbelieve that someone could actually come up with such lofty bs.
I learn so much when these threads get derailed. I'm just disappointed I missed the conversation about pro sports in my hometown.
I'm just disappointed that in between the song they stole from Spurs with (insert name here) where Harry Kane's name goes, the Tom Petty song and the one lauding the Austin City Council, they neglected to write one explaining how PSV spits on women and actively chases Latinos away. Maybe in volume II.
Not to revive an old off-topic conversation or anything, but what is the accepted way of using an apostrophe with a proper noun that has an s at the end of it? I've always used "Dr. Seuss's green eggs and ham", but people always scream at me and say it's Dr. Seuss'. I was under the impression you only drop the s after the apostrophe if you're talking about more than one person, i.e. "The Seuss' dog is green."
Well, oddly, this is one of the rare times when even top-tier authorities disagree. What I can say for certain is that the plural form of a proper noun that ends in s is es. As in "the Suesses dog". I know it look ridiculous, but it is in fact correct.
But plural & plural possessive cannot be the same. Can they? There has to be an apostrophe in there somewhere, yes? Example: The Suesses have a dog. (Plural) The Suesses' dog bit me yesterday. (Plural possessive). I thought the rule is pretty straightforward. To make a plural noun possessive: 1) Add apostrophe + s. 2) Unless the plural noun ends in s, in which case it is apostrophe only. Of course, one has to get the plural correct as well.
Dr. Seuss - singular person. Dr. Seuss' dog - the dog that belongs to Dr. Seuss. The Seusses' dog - the dog that belongs to the Seuss family. But as a general rule, according to Strunk & White and the Chicago Manual of Style, the only time it is grammatically OK to misuse an apostrophe is when you are quoting someone who has an IQ below a tree stump and you just know for a fact that if they could, they would pronounce any apostrophe's they could get there I's around. It really begg's alot of question's, but I could care less!
ATM machine and PIN number don't bother me so much. I mean, what if they are speaking of safety pins or atmospheres? What gets me are forms that ask for your SSN#. I always wonder if they are asking which nuclear attack submarine I served on, so I answer "N/A".