A Conversation for Correct Use of the Apostrophe In English
Whose is Who's?
Uncle Heavy [sic] Posted Sep 17, 2002
not to worry. take all the tine you want to settle in. its prolly more urgent 
Whose is Who's?
Researcher 188007 Posted Oct 4, 2002
It seems to have been given to someone else, which is fair enough really. Oh well, I hope they look after it...
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Whose is Who's?
Martin Harper Posted Oct 15, 2002
Hmm. Shame that the h2g2 editors didn't finish the job off... 
Whose is Who's?
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 15, 2002
It looks like it is finished to me. At least the "Editor's Note" has been removed, which is the only thing I could see wrong with it.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 15, 2002
Er... This may have been mentioned here already, but I gave up on the backlog on the first page. 
Near the start of the article, in the part where you say "...plane has become a word in its own right; most grammarians agree that this usage is no longer regarded as correct.", shouldn't that be "...no longer regarded as incorrect."? 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Oct 15, 2002
It's slightly ambiguous; what was meant was that the usage 'plane is no long considered correct.
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 15, 2002
I think you're right there Peet... oh Italics....
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 15, 2002
That's not right surely- I would have thought both 'plane and plane aer acceptable therefore it is the case that plane is no longer incorrect, but it is not the case that 'plane is incorrect 
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 15, 2002
I'm an old fuddy-duddy, and I still regularly refer to "the 'phone" when I'm chatting on IRC... I just type the way I think. 
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Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 15, 2002
Mmmm, I still write 'phone too. I don't write 'plane' very often, so to be honest I don;t know what I'd write.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Oct 15, 2002
I'm a bit of a hypocrite, though, inasmuch as I don't tend to write "the 'bus"... 
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Martin Harper Posted Oct 25, 2002
Author and Sub-ed and interested parties may wish to read F47997?thread=219195 in Editorial Feedback
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Whose is Who's?
- 41: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Sep 17, 2002)
- 42: Researcher 188007 (Oct 4, 2002)
- 43: Uncle Heavy [sic] (Oct 4, 2002)
- 44: Martin Harper (Oct 15, 2002)
- 45: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 15, 2002)
- 46: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 15, 2002)
- 47: Gnomon - time to move on (Oct 15, 2002)
- 48: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Oct 15, 2002)
- 49: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Oct 15, 2002)
- 50: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 15, 2002)
- 51: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Oct 15, 2002)
- 52: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Oct 15, 2002)
- 53: Martin Harper (Oct 25, 2002)
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