Re: prescriptive possessives, was: Number of writing systems
From:
Nicholas Bodley
Message:
6185
Date:
2005-10-06
Of course, Marthas Vineyard, the island, is never, afaik, spelled with an
apostrophe.
--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
who was happy to split "apo" from "strophe";
all of a sudden, the "spelling didn't look arbitrary".