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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Possessive plurals of last names
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 16:06:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 16:06:24 1985
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In article <1337@teddy.UUCP> mjn@teddy.UUCP (Mark J. Norton) 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.

Right -- It is short for the famous phrase MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO
(hope I got those ending vowels right!) meaning "A clean mind in a
clean body", thus showing the use of the bathroom for brainwashing...

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