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  • can anyone help with grammar & apostrophes please?

    Posted by Ian Muir on October 30, 2008 at 10:19 am

    Hi
    Before I send designs to a client I want to check my apostrophes in right place.

    Reads like this

    Belinda’s finest home cooking

    or should it be

    Belindas’ finest home cooking

    Thanks

    Ian

    Alan Drury replied 15 years, 6 months ago 6 Members · 7 Replies
  • 7 Replies
  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Unless there are more than one of Belinda, it should be Belinda’s.
    Love….Jill

  • David Rogers

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 10:42 am

    What Jill’s said 😛

  • Ian Muir

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 10:47 am

    Thanks… in this case I am content to trust our friends from across the pond with spelling :lol1: :lol1:

    Not with ‘colors’ though eh?

    Thanks again Jill and David.

    Ian :lol1:

  • Brian Hays

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 10:54 am
    quote Ian Muir:

    Thanks… in this case I am content to trust our friends from across the pond with spelling :lol1: :lol1:

    Not with ‘colors’ though eh?

    Thanks again Jill and David.

    Ian :lol1:

    Apart from the odd missed out U. And the odd ZEE instead of an S, most of the Americans that I have met have a far better grasp of the English Language/Grammar/Spelling etc. than folk here. 😥 Will include myself in that too btw. :lol1:

  • graffica

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 1:04 pm

    Just one of my high "horse´s".
    There´s an outfit round here with several huge hoarding´s advertising
    BED´S & BATH´S. And loads´ more of example´s in the UK also.
    Surely a fundamental for all sign-maker´s is that they should have a good grasp of grammar, but sadly it seems´ this is not the case.
    Have a look at a book by Lynn Truss called Eats Shoots and Leaves.

    Pedants reign! Or could be pedants´ rain falls mainly on the plain.

    Chri´s A

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 1:32 pm
    quote :

    most of the Americans that I have met have a far better grasp of the English Language/Grammar/Spelling etc. than folk here

    You can thank Sister Eusebia and her ruler for that.
    :lol1:
    I also loathe erroneous ‘s and unnecessary quotation mark’s

    http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/1 … marks.html

    But am never sure if it’s surprise or surprize.
    Love….Jill

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    October 30, 2008 at 3:34 pm

    Some of the spelling on the boards can be creative as well 😀
    Alan D

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