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Where's all my s!!!!

That better baby?

?

well, all mine are with the
Come on, you have 2 s now (one of which is stolen!) don;t be greedy!

Good to see you, and the name!, back!

*squirms out of mums arms and wipes face*



MUM!!!! Not in public!!! People are watching!








God...I do hate it when mum does that

Two of my favourite men giving me hugs

awww...remember you mother s

Hiya Pheloxi

"remember you mother s (you)"
So did Norman Bates's.

oi! lil me is no where near Norman Bates' mother

Icky I did not know tha Norman Bates had more than one mother! oh mat be you are one of the mothers!

oi! lil me is no where near Norman Bates' mothers

oh may be you are one of the mothers!

sorry I had remove errors!


Vicki I am glad that you apear here every now and then.

lil me

do not let them get to you, because you both are s

Hello darling

I am not far away..

hi lil!

for you and for VV. Off home soon so talk later maybe!

Hello Icky love

Norman Bates' mother? Hah!

Might see you later

A for a

"Norman Bates' mother?"
No, for you are not the mother of more than 1 Norman Bate.

It's a style thing. Firstly, the plural that pheloxi refers to is wrong.
The only place the pluralisation he mentions could occur is with 'bates'.
Now, if one takes his convention of proper nouns ending in s being given just an apostrphe of possession with no 's' then it is Norman Bates who is plural,not his (their) mother(s).
As correctly identified, though, a plural does not take the s in the 's of possession.
However, Norman Bates is not plural, he is singular (quite singular the old fashioned amounst us might say). Therefore, by the rules, he must take the 's in full to indicate possession.
Truth be told, this is a common disagreement. Many people just apply the ' on its own to any word ending in s that needs to show possession.
But there is an equal group who point out that Bates is singular and therefore must take the complete 's.
Indeed, in 'Elements of Style' by William Strunk, jr from 1918, using the 's with proper nouns ending in s is his No. 1 rule!

Personally, I change which I use depending on how I'm feeling.
No one would want to have to write 'The Joneses's house.' or even pronounce it!

Sorry for the serious diversion
Have a and calm down and relax.

bbc 3 had programm about "pedants"

...it seems a wrote a best selling book about it...
http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=pedant

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oi!!!! OI? What are you? A Jewish scouser?

*Thinks (a rarity for Outrider) Bet she had the pointy finger too!

Oh well!





(on the cheek, of course. On the face LM, on the face!)


Good to see you out and about.