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#91878 01/14/03 05:06 AM
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Has anyone else been irritated by the absence of said punctuation in the new Hugh Grant film title "Two Weeks Notice"? I 've decided to boycott the film for that reason.
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I think you'll find that there is no call for an apostrophy in the title, johnjohn. The notice being given is two weeks long - not two week's long - the notice is not possessed by the weeks (which are plural), but by whoever is giving or receiving the notice.

Therefore, you may go and view the film with a clear conscience.


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- and all they have to do is to put an acute accent on the "e" to make it glitter!


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I actually thought those sorts of constructions were along the lines of two weeks' notice. As in a notice of two weeks.


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As a matter of grammar, I'm with johnjohn and Bean on this one.

As a matter of movies, thanks for the warning, WW. There are too many must-see movies out there right now to waste time and money on something that's not excellent. In fact, I think I'll start a thread on that.


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Actually, the title is a sentence, but no one has bothered to tell us just what the two weeks noticed. (A sort of example of pathetic fallacy. I am sick of the spam I've been getting recently about pathetic phallusy, but I won't enlarge on this at the present.)

But if it is a notice of two weeks duration then it needs an apostrophe.



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the notice is not possessed by the weeks

I gotta go along with Rhuby, but I think he didn't go far enough. The s is unnecessary. This is along the lines of the proverbial ten foot pole. The unit is not pluralized and the whole phrase two week is adjectival, modifying notice. The movie should be titled Two Week Notice.


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You gotta have an apostrophe in the former or a hyphen in the latter.

Two-Week Notice.


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You gotta have

You maybe do.


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