[Gllug] re: grammar

[Dylan]

On Friday 03 Sep 2004 10:57 am, t.clarke wrote:
> Since grammar seems to have cropped up again, and harking back to a
> previous post,  what precisely is wrong with  " typo's "  ?
>
> I thought that an apostrophe to replace missing characters in an
> abbreviated word was perfectly normal !

In a contracted form, such as "can't" where there is following material 
remaining - yes. "Typo", however, isn't a contraction, it's an 
abbreviation and hence should be "typo." but as it so conventionalised 
in the "typing error" meaning it has become an independent word. Hence, 
"typo" in this sense is a word in its own right, so takes a plain /-s/ 
plural. The /-'s/ is only ever acceptable as the posessive marker.

Dylan

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