Apostrophes in names; was Re: Obamafied...

[Mark Mandel]

It's an AP story. Here it is at Yahoo news:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_re_us/apostrophes_in_names
or
*http://tinyurl.com/224osb

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Barbara Need <nee1 at midway.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

> Try this (I got there without signing in).
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-
> apostrophes_slider_bdfeb24,0,6146939.story<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-apostrophes_slider_bdfeb24,0,6146939.story>
>
> Barbara
>
> On 24 Feb 2008, at 12:36, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>
> > On Feb 24, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Barbara Need wrote:
> >
> >> Today's Chicago Tribune had an article about problems people whose
> >> names included an apostrophe (O'Brien), a dash (Arabic names
> >> beginning al-) or a space (van Eyck) run into when trying to interact
> >> with computers. I can provide a link if anyone is interested.
> >
> > i can't get to it.  i'm registered with the Chicago Tribune, but still
> > can't get in without a further registration in the Subscriber
> > Advantage program.
> >
> > arnold
> >
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