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8 hours ago ago from Linguaphiles

I’m struggling with a possessive apostrophe question. If the name of a company contains a plural as its final word (e.g. Super Eggs), does the possessive apostrophe follow the plural form (Super Eggs’) because the word is plural, or the singular form (Super Eggs’s) because the company itself is a single entity?

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17 hours ago ago from College through Haiku: Procrastination in Poetry

Alas! Today is Wednesday, and tomorrow I have my first (and second to last) final exam! This one is for my medieval romance class, which thus far has been all fun and games, by which I mean that all of the readings have been more or less enjoyable and the lectures have been nothing but entertaining (and that wasn't sarcastic). Now, however, I will be asked to identify twenty passages, saying where they're from, when they're from, what ...

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22 hours ago ago from Business Communication Headline News

How Newell Rubbermaid Uses Social Media | Main | Four Reasons You Fail to Achieve Your Goals If you've ever paused mid-stroke and thought Does this need an apostrophe? you'll want to take a peek at the apostrophe-use flowchart at Apostrophe.me for a cartoon-driven refresher. The flowchart asks simple questions like Is it plural? and Are you indicating possession? to drive the flow through all the potential situations in which ...

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Could I have “unfriended” someone in the 18th C.?

4 hours ago ago from Hrag Vartanian

Recently, Michael Quinion explained that the term is much older than Facebook. In a recent edition of WORLD WIDE WORDS (Issue 667, Saturday, November 28, 2009) he suggests that the word originates in medieval Scotland: The noun certainly is, with evidence going back to medieval Scots, its sense ranging from that of a person with whom one is not on friendly terms to a full-blown enemy. After going out of favour around 1600 it was ...

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