thorny apostrophes

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 27 17:15:00 UTC 2012


Not exactly a common issue and one of Gawker's own creation, but note
the verbing of the movie title in this sentence:

http://goo.gl/hRvpv
> Things are so bad that any second now Matt Drudge might run a link
> claiming that Romney's VP pick will actually be a fully Weekend at
> Bernies'd Ronald Reagan.

["Weekend at Bernies" [sic] is italicized in the original]

     VS-)

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