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From: mjn@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Possessive plurals of last names
Message-ID: <1337@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Sep-85 09:59:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1337
Posted: Tue Sep 24 09:59:42 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 08:04:36 EDT
References: <2475@mit-hermes.ARPA> <1645@peora.UUCP> <1050@teklds.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjn@teddy.UUCP (Mark J. Norton)
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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?

Of course its a word, it means mind (latin).  This implies that the
bathroom is a place to think.

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		Mark J. Norton
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		mjn@sunspot


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