[Gllug] Perl, the dogs nadgers?

[Alex Hudson]

On 22 Jul 2001, Nix wrote:
> More to the point, plurals never, never, ever take apostrophes.

:) Possibly the most annoying use of apostrophes _ever_, except that one
that really gets my goat - confusing your with you're. If your going to
write that in anything you send to me, make sure you're wearing you're
flame-pants.... :P

> > The use of apostrophe is old English, as in "John's donkey" was originally
> 
> You'd be wrong; this is a persistent urban legend --- or, rather, a
> misinterpretation dating from the 16th century

Depends which way you see it, I suppose - kind of chicken and egg. It's
use did come about as a shortened version of .. his, but the people that
used it originally were wrong to do so :)

Cheers,

Alex.


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