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Cloud 11-04-2009 03:54 PM

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Here's a local body art place I blogged about: Do's & Tattoos. I'm not exactly sure what the rule here would be. Technically, to indicate the omitted letters, it would be 'Dos. But I think there's a rule that says if the result is unreadable, you can put an apostrophe in the plural to make it read better. Without the apostrophe, people 'round here would read it as "dos"; i.e., the number two. So, it would be . . .
'Do's.

Here's a link to the blog post, if you're interested (but no biggie):
http://piercedconsumer.com/2009/11/03/dos-tattoos/

Glinda 11-08-2009 03:04 PM

I'm a professional writer. I know all about apostrophe abuse.

It hurts me. Personally. And I'm not timid about letting those around me know of my pain.

My mother swears she will never write anything to me again. :D

Urbane Guerrilla 11-09-2009 03:02 AM

My mother can write to me without tadpole trouble. So can Dad.

My younger brothers' elementary-school English instruction was all fucked up; they never got any phonics and aren't the spellers or the tadpolers I am.

Urbane Guerrilla 11-09-2009 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum (Post 604074)
Also my pronounciation of "adjective" is a bit odd, apparently.

You didn't stress the first syllable?

And yeah, B. Sports is an adjective modifying teams. None of the teams are in the possession of a genetic variant.

Cloud 11-16-2009 11:25 PM

ha! I got some nasty comments about my blog post. But no one but me seems to care about the blatant apostrophe abuse! Sad, sad state of affairs.

Urbane Guerrilla 11-18-2009 10:58 PM

Now you know who the nits are.

SamIam 11-19-2009 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla (Post 606868)
You didn't stress the first syllable?

And yeah, B. Sports is an adjective modifying teams. None of the teams are in the possession of a genetic variant.

Oh, come on! How about the Mutant Denver Bronco's from HELL?

BrianR 12-04-2009 04:27 PM

Thread resurrection
 
Here are the rules:

Happy Monkey 12-09-2009 06:18 PM

And another:
http://www.angryflower.com/aposter3.jpg

Pete Zicato 01-10-2010 10:14 PM

On to other language abuse. Ed Byrne critiques Alanis Morisette's use of the word "ironic".



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