Corpora: International English

[Alex Chengyu Fang]

 --- Avryl2 at aol.com wrote:
> courtroom.  The most common error is to use the
> apostrophe when a simple plural is intended, e.g.,
> 'Customer's are requested to show their ID.' Does

Interesting. It seems there's an overuse on the
American side while certainly a severe underuse over
here... Now we are on track with the original
discussion! :-)

Alex


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Alex Chengyu Fang
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Department of Phonetics and Linguistics
University College London, UK

alex at phon.ucl.ac.uk
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/alex/home.htm

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