Re: prescriptive possessives, was: Number of writing systems

--- Nicholas Bodley <nbodley@...> wrote:

>
> Of course, Marthas Vineyard, the island, is never,
> afaik, spelled with an apostrophe.

Yes. Placenames seem to be a special case. In
Australia
most possessive placenames have lost their apostrophe.
Kings Cross is the one that springs to mind. I wonder
if the British place is Kings Cross or King's Cross?

Andrew Dunbar.

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> --
> Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
> who was happy to split "apo" from "strophe";
> all of a sudden, the "spelling didn't look
> arbitrary".
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