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Apostrophe atrocity
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Feb 5, 2004
The article should be entitled "Visas", not "Visa's"... 
Apostrophe atrocity
Post Team Posted Feb 5, 2004
You are, of course, correct. It's this Dutch language screwing my English. Any word ending in a vowel requires an apostrophe before the 's' to make it plural. I'll correct it immediately. 
shazz 
Apostrophe atrocity
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Feb 5, 2004
Cheers, Shazz! Does the Dutch thing also explain the strange spelling of "connection" in the "Platypus Dreams" intro? 
Apostrophe atrocity
Post Team Posted Feb 5, 2004
Nope - that's a tonsilism and I tend to leave his whimsical spelling alone! 
The major bus company in Holland is called Connexxion - but 'x' is barely used in Dutch at all! Just about all words for which we use 'x', they use 's'.
shazz
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Apostrophe atrocity
- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Feb 5, 2004)
- 2: Post Team (Feb 5, 2004)
- 3: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Feb 5, 2004)
- 4: Post Team (Feb 5, 2004)
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