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Australia
Joined 20 Jan '09 Moves 384990
Wat?
Joined 16 Aug '05 Moves 76863 Definitely no apostrophe needed there! 😉
-m.
2014.05.01
Joined 11 Apr '07 Moves 92274 It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas.
Easily my favorite word with an apostrophe because everyone gets it wrong.
Australia
Joined 20 Jan '09 Moves 384990 I love that one.
If simplification drives language change, then all the apostrophes should have disappeared by now, with meaning indicated by context alone; but we seem to be getting the opposite effect, with apostrophes appearing all over the place indicating plurals. 🙁
Joined 23 Sep '06 Moves 18677 Originally posted by SwissGambit
It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas.
Easily my favorite word with an apostrophe because everyone gets it wrong. Not everyone.
RHP Arms
Joined 09 Jun '07 Moves 48793 Originally posted by Rank outsider
Its amazing how many people are struggling with the apostrophe and it's correct use. 😀
I'd say that was too subtle.
slatington, pa, usa
Joined 28 Dec '04 Moves 53223 Originally posted by coquette
o'k K'o'd. My daughter's former religion was Ba'hai.
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Joined 04 Jul '06 Moves 1113883 Originally posted by SwissGambit
It's a wise dog that scratches its own fleas.
Easily my favorite word with an apostrophe because everyone gets it wrong. it's a fleeing dog the flies on the fleece
rural North Dakota
Joined 31 Oct '07 Moves 95775 Originally posted by coquette
it's a fleeing dog the flies on the fleece How about a sheep that flees fleas in its fleece? How fast would it have to run?
Not of this World
Joined 11 Apr '09 Moves 38013 Originally posted by ale1552
How about a sheep that flees fleas in its fleece? How fast would it have to run? If they are already in its fleece, they will travel just as fast no matter how fast the sheep runs... well, unless somehow it is able to run so fast that the fleas would be knocked off by sheer wind sheer. I guess that brings a whole new meaning to sheep shearing.
Wat?
Joined 16 Aug '05 Moves 76863 Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.
{ c.f. Science forum!}
-m. 😉
American West
Joined 19 Apr '10 Moves 55013 I'll apostrophe you in'a minute.
2014.05.01
Joined 11 Apr '07 Moves 92274 Originally posted by HandyAndy
Not everyone. It's a group that has its exceptions. 🙂
2014.05.01
Joined 11 Apr '07 Moves 92274 Originally posted by coquette
it's a fleeing dog the flies on the fleece It's an incomplete, or a run-on, sentence. 🙂
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Joined 04 Jul '06 Moves 1113883 Originally posted by SwissGambit
It's an incomplete, or a run-on, sentence. 🙂 You noticed? Very Interesting, no doub't.
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