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Persnickety Grammar Moment Of The Week
I’ve mellowed on the whole “pluralizing with an apostrophe” kick. First off, there’s a dude in the paper who covers that for me. Second off, I write x-thousand words a day, I’m sure I’ve done it myself in my darkest of moments. But, you, Daily News sports staff — or whoever keyed in the headline on the web — have no excuse for writing “Phil’s.” Unless Philadelphia Phil and Phyllis won the game and not the local baseball nine1… ahem, ahem. 1 And even then, it still doesn’t work. I mean, Philadelphia Phil and Phyllis never win. Rod and unreal [Daily News] |
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no, then it *still* wouldn’t take an apostrophe, unless you want it to be possessive…
errr.. wouldn’t that apostrophe be taking the place of “lie” in phillies? Granted phils is an acceptable nickname, but maybe there is some sort mega-grammar-stickler over at the DN
mis-placed possessives are second to putting everything in “quotes” for no good reason- other than it was a way for typesetters to make the letters italic in the olden days…..
Especially when this stuff happens on “professional” produced signage!!
Grrrrrrrrr