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insert an apostrophe into "its" to indicate possession.
I've come to like it; it keeps me from reading too fast to digest the sentence properly.
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The best?/worst? use of the apostrophe that I've seen was Xma's.
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Xma's
Reminds me of the radio ad for holiday porno I heard: Let's put the X back in Xmas!
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Let's put the X back in Xmas! Dear Sparteye: Don't do it, I'm too old for an X rated Xmas.wwh
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How about businessspeak "I am going to GROW this company". Ugh, ugh, ugh
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My teeth ache when I hear "I am going to GROW my company". I imagine a guy in a three piece suit, with a building and logo erupting out of his head.
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The X in Xmas is very, very old. It's the Greek letter chi as in Xpictos (that's Xpucm in Russian).
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wow asks, So you would say "a wide series?"
Probably "an extensive series" rather than wide. The words aren't totally interchangeable, but I feel that they are near enough in meaning to be used in very similar contexts to convey the same idea.
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Dianne, I do so agree with you. Indeed, it is a grows misuse of the verb.
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Dianne, I do so agree with you. Indeed, it is a grows misuse of the verb *grown* bridget=) Ipsa scientia potestas est ~Bacon
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