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Subject:RE: "box" From:Stuart Burnfield <slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:03:12 +0900
The next time this comes up you could ask them to correct all the other
possessives such as thei'r, m'y, hi's, he'r...
Dori Green wrote:
> Of course there should be an apostrophe, he argued. It's possessive,
isn't it?
> ... I still encounter that same argument sometimes.
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