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    Posted: 27 Feb 06 at 4:40pm
Next week, we'll attack the title of this thread when we're tackling apostrophes. All examples welcome  
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Well i spied this on my travels:
Time for a new chair????
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Originally posted by Black no sugar

Next week, we'll attack the title of this thread when we're tackling apostrophes. All examples welcome  

I thought this was the thread belonging to Spy Photo?
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Posts: 3941 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Feb 06 at 7:17pm

Photo's with an apostrophe to mark the plural GRRRR

It's the grengrocer's apostrophe, a very common and very ugly mistake!
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Posts: 3941 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 Feb 06 at 7:24pm

Weeeheey, have a look at this: http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/examples_1.htm

And here's one gone AWOL, straight out of a school car park:

How many principals do they have in this place?



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Lynne Truss has a lot to answer for...before I read her book I was perfectly aware of what was wrong, but didn't feel the need to write about it in unlikely places on the internet...
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Yep you're right, I shut up. I shouldn't be here in the first place anyway, as I've never even seen a boat worth spying onto. I'll creep back into my hole and let the real people talk about worthwhile subjects  
Have you noticed there's another thread started about the rugby results, by the way?   

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I know how to put you lot off your sailing if I need to get passed.  I'm off to paint bad english, sorry English, no..english..ohh whatever sentences all over my boat.
I might be sailing it, but it's still sh**e!
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Originally posted by Black no sugar

Photo's with an apostrophe to mark the plural GRRRR

It's the grengrocer's apostrophe, a very common and very ugly mistake!

Yes, it's terrible, as I told my grengrocer the other day (as he was getting me some gren pes)
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Posts: 3941 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Black no sugar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Feb 06 at 9:17pm
LOLOK OK I did say I shut up!  Anyone with a good picture of a floating thingy?
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