Re: prescriptive possessives, was: Number of writing systems

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>Of course, Marthas Vineyard, the island, is never, afaik, spelled with an
>apostrophe.
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Hmm, I never noticed it spelled w/o before!

So, off to google, where all but one mention on the first page have the
apostrophe!

http://www.google.com/search?q=martha%27s+vineyard&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

Best,

Barry