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Originally Posted By: zmjezhdI learned to use boss' when I was in grammar school, but nowadays they teach boss's. Go figure. I still tend to write it like I was l'arned.
As there are protocols in politics, military, computers, ets., there are similar in grammar and language. In the USA, the newspaper industry has had a tremendous influence re: rules of grammar and spelling. The use of the apostrophe in possessives has been the cause of controversy. Isn't it the Chicago Style Manual that most American newspapers recognize as their standard? When I was in college (early 1960s), most American colleges used Harbrace for routine issues and Turabian for formal papers. But the Chicago style was beginning to intrude so that today it is predominant. Wonder what is going to happen as the hard-copy newspapers are having an increasingly difficult time of holding on to their share of the media market?
BTW, I believe that boss' is pronounced as bosses as if it were spelled boss's.
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