"greengrocer's apostrophe" (was Re: Cam(pb)ell)

Steve K. stevek at SHORE.NET
Fri Aug 4 12:05:34 UTC 2000


On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Arnold Zwicky wrote:

> apostrophe's used for the plural.

do you call them greengrocer's scarequotes, too?

"fresh" muskemelon's -- only "one dollar"
etc.

--- Steve K.



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