Dear Dipa,

all the while I thought your eyes are playing tricks on you that you read doctors' as doctor's. That did happen to myself and friends when we were kids and under stress, especially sitting for English language exams (silly mistakes we called them). I did not realise that you are unaware of the use of the apostrophe sign, as a matter of fact that you live in the United States.

This is quite interesting and makes me laugh, but at least, I will be more upfront when discussing aspects of English grammar and punctuation, even though this list is about Pali, not English, language.

I used to discuss English grammar a fair bit in our earlier messages, but sense some members (from English-speaking nations?) not very happy about it.

;-)

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Dipa wrote:

Now I see that the placement of the apostrophe is after the s in doctors. I have no previous knowledge of placing an apostrophe after the last letter to signify plurality. All these years of reading and I have never noticed this.