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

[Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM]

Gregory {Greg} Downing <gd2 at IS2.NYU.EDU> writes:

>>>>>
What's the commonest term for "greengrocer's apostrophe" here in the US
("greengrocer being, in my experience anyway, a UK term not often seen in
reference to the US)? Or have language scholars in the US simply adopted
what would seem to be a UK-coined and UK-oriented term?
<<<<<

My experience and personal usage history support your latter guess.

-- Mark

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