Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ag5 From: ag5@pucc-i (Henry C. Mensch) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Phil Ngai ..... Message-ID: <639@pucc-i> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 01:59:44 EDT Article-I.D.: pucc-i.639 Posted: Wed Oct 10 01:59:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:53:06 EDT References: <615@trwspp.UUCP> Organization: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Lines: 23 [Keeping up with the Jones's grammar!] **> If you want to discuss competence with the English language, I **>suggest you prove your own, first: **> THE POSSESSIVE FORM OF ANY WORD ENDING IN "S" (SUCH AS CHRIS) **>IS "WORDS'." (OR "CHRIS'"). **>---------------------------------------------------------------------- **>Christian W. Stassen [decvax!trwrb,vortex,ihnp4!vortex]!trwspp!stassen Sorry, Chris; you're wrong this time. Since your last grammar lesson it *has* become acceptable usage to mark posession (on words which end in the consonant 's') with an "'s" also. (Perhaps this is an outgrowth of the Information Age). My only regret is that I don't recall where I saw this gem. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry C. Mensch | Purdue University Computing Center {decvax|ucbvax|sequent|icalqa|inuxc|uiucdcs|ihnp4}!pur-ee!pucc-i!ag5 -------------------------------------------------------------------- " . . You'd better smile when they watch you, smile like you're in control. . ."