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--- "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@...> wrote:

>
> Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:36:36 -0400, Richard
> Wordingham
> ><richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>However, the apostrophe inconsistently vanishes in
> proper names, e.g.
> >>the variation in placenames such as "St Martins"
> in Salop (Anglice
> >>'Shropshire') but "St Martin's" near Perth (the
> old Scottish capital).
> >>Omission seems to be the rule in surnames.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Locally, afaik, there's never an apostrophe in
> "Marthas Vineyard".
> >
> And there's the popular clothing retailer Lands'
> End, which has a
> shockingly misplaced apostrophe that they cheerfully
> admit to, but
> that's the way it is since early in their history
> apparently (I seem to
> recall something about a typo that stuck). Johns
> Hopkins University
> isn't a possessive, but it sounds like one.
>
> ~mark
>
>
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