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From: irish@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Apostrophes and "alot"
Message-ID: <369@ihuxb.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 07:41:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihuxb.369
Posted: Fri Oct  7 07:41:54 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 08:33:29 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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Come on, people!  Do you know how hard it is to read something and
run across, say, the word "dog's", and then spend several fractions
of a second looking for the word describing what the dog possesses,
only to realize that the person who wrote the sentence meant "more
than one dog"???  By then, I've forgotten the rest of the sentence.

WHEN ONE PLURALIZES A WORD, ONE *DOES NOT* USE AN APOSTROPHE!!!!!

Which is easier to read:
	The dogs chased me.
or
	The dog's chased me.
???

Also, "alot" is NOT a word!  Try finding "alot" in a dictionary.
Please, please, it's "A LOT"!

Sorry if I offended any of you out there who don't understand
punctuation rules.

Waiting for the flames from lazy and/or apathetic writers,

Laura @ BTL Naperville, IL
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