May 24, 2007
Persnickety Grammar Moment Of The Week
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I've mellowed on the whole "pluralizing with an apostrophe" kick. First off, there's a dude in the paper who covers that for me. Second off, I write x-thousand words a day, I'm sure I've done it myself in my darkest of moments. But, you, Daily News sports staff -- or whoever keyed in the headline on the web -- have no excuse for writing "Phil's." Unless Philadelphia Phil and Phyllis won the game and not the local baseball nine1... ahem, ahem.
1 And even then, it still doesn't work. I mean, Philadelphia Phil and Phyllis never win.
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Posted by D-Mac on May 24, 2007 09:00 AM
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errr.. wouldn't that apostrophe be taking the place of "lie" in phillies? Granted phils is an acceptable nickname, but maybe there is some sort mega-grammar-stickler over at the DN
Posted by: Anonymous at May 24, 2007 10:44 AM
mis-placed possessives are second to putting everything in "quotes" for no good reason- other than it was a way for typesetters to make the letters italic in the olden days.....
Especially when this stuff happens on "professional" produced signage!!
Grrrrrrrrr
Posted by: firepixx at May 24, 2007 03:29 PM
no, then it *still* wouldn't take an apostrophe, unless you want it to be possessive...
Posted by: acm at May 24, 2007 10:38 AM