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From: davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Possessive plurals of last names
Message-ID: <1050@teklds.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 16:59:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: teklds.1050
Posted: Thu Sep 19 16:59:37 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 11:57:39 EDT
References: <2475@mit-hermes.ARPA> <1645@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidl@teklds.UUCP (David Levine)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
Lines: 14
Summary: 

In article <1645@peora.UUCP> randy@peora.UUCP (Randy Hendry) writes:
>The title of the article reminded me of a word(?) I keep seeing
>on restrooms:  MENS.  Is there a shortage of apostrophes, or
>do the people who label doors think this is a word?

I've found the missing apostrophe, right nearby.  Just this weekend, I
saw a sign on another restroom:

				LADIE'S

*Sigh*.

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!teklds!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (teklds!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]


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