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This article from NYTimes.com Boston Journal:
Minder of Misplaced Apostrophes Scolds a Town
By SARAH LYALL
BOSTON, England — They jump out everywhere at John Richards, silent testaments to the declining standards of our time.
Just four blocks from his house, for instance, is the Print Xpress copy shop, with its sign offering to print "menu's."
That's just the beginning, Mr. Richards said recently, his Brezhnevian eyebrows beetling indignantly as he conducted an annotated tour of the neighborhood, on the outskirts of this busy Lincolnshire town.......... For the whole article click : http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/world/16ENGL.html?ex=993700761&ei=1&en=842bb314a6df5fb0Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company Later Edit : I went back and clicked on the url ... it works OK! Now that you've read it ... comments?
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Annastrophic, its not that its so old, it's CRIPPLED. It has no CDROM driver, no sound card, I have no printer, I'm sure there must be other things I'm not aware of, but I'm just going to drive it until it crashes and then buy a new one! My luck it will probably never crash, or else it will crash right before I really need it! Kind of like cars, huh. This one's a 1971 Gremlin.
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Such attention to 'linguistic' detail is not rare, as this board has proven. We all make up our own use patterns (as we should IMHO) and we all make mistakes (as we will again), but the obvious ones, when respectfully (I prefer humorously) pointed out to the 'maker', will most often (in my limited experience) be corrected at "no charge". However, I'm not inclined (or "rich" enough  ) to go up to everyone I hear sing out of tune and point out that fact to them! (ps - IP, it's good to see you "back") (pps - In case anybody has missed my "intent", the quotes denote an "open" interpretability of the word within  ) EDIT - This repair brought to you by WO'N... oh... here's your change... 
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For some odd reason, I always stumble on the word peculiar.
-dave
aim sn - 'a bored youth'
-dave
aim sn - 'a bored youth'
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but the obvious ones, when repectfully (I prefer humorously) pointed out to the 'maker' ...sorry, musick...I couldn't resist.
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Do any Welsh words that start with a "th" sound? If not (as I believe)
Welsh has "Th" as a separate consonant, pronounced as "th" in "think.
It also has "Dd" pronounced as "th" in "them"
Welsh has several words starting with "Th" borrowed from English, e.g. thermomedr. It also (I had to look this up) has "thus" meaning frankincense!
It doesn't seem to have many starting with "Dd" though. I will look at home tonight.
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WO'N ...but it'll cost you two more 's and a for me to go in and "fix" it.
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I was just about to comment that I disagreed with Mr. Richards' objection to the word "CD's," noting that I thought that was the proper plural form for abbreviations (like 1960's or A's) when I noticed that the pop-up ad that appeared when I opened the link to the NYT was advertising "CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs." Now I don't assume some blathering copy on the Internet to be the arbiter, but what do you all think about "CD's"?
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but what do you all think about "CD's"?
This is a bit prescriptive, so look away now. "CD's" should be used in two contexts, possessive and contractive:
possessive: The CD's new songs are X and Y.
contractive: The CD's pretty new. (CD is)
Plural of CD should be CDs. We don't put apostrophes on the plural for cat or dog. Why should CD get the hallowed risen comma?
Brandon
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