<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">With the 'correct' Danish genitive form being s without the apostrophe, it is amusing to note that the 'correct' English form is creeping in - as in the case of a shop in, Rønne on the island of Bornholm, named Simon's!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 4 Jul 2006, at 03:34, Peter Tan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><EM style="font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">We know that the possessive apostrophe is a relatively recent development and was not used by Shakespeare, for example. If the possessive apostrophe started out in the mistaken etymologising belief that there was some form of elision, perhaps there might be a case for getting rid of it (the way it is happening in a lot of informal written text - eg St Johns Wood - and maybe even formal text - eg Harrods, Woolworths), and we might be able to stop telling people not to use the apostrophe in the possessive pronoun its!</SPAN></EM></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">-- </SPAN></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; ; font-size: 10px; "><BR style="; font-size: 10px; "></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Nicholas J A Sanders</SPAN></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">_____________________</SPAN></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><B style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; "><I style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">semiotek</SPAN></SPAN></I></B></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Verdana; font-size: 10px; "><B style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; "><I style="font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></I></B></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">T: +44 [0]7092 153 409</SPAN></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10.5px;; font-family: Arial; "></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><A href="mailto:nick@semiotek.org">nick@semiotek.org</A></SPAN></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; ; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">_____________________</SPAN></SPAN></P><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>