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yes, for UKIP think Tea Party (complete with Mad Hatter)
Their current bubble of popularity down in Olde England
is making us Scots worry whether the poor dears
can really be trusted to look after themselves without us! :p

Hey I'm being very naughty, mustn't do politics,
back to the grindstone eul! :spank:​
 
Eulalia said:
yes, for UKIP think Tea Party (complete with Mad Hatter)
Their current bubble of popularity down in Olde England
is making us Scots worry whether the poor dears
can really be trusted to look after themselves without us! :p

Hey I'm being very naughty, mustn't do politics,
back to the grindstone eul! :spank:​
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no politics.................said imagemaker and yes need some coffee in tree's seagram
 
or should that be Hans's? :p​
 
melissa said:
The Queen's Apostropher Royal is most impressed by Hans' use of the apostrophe.
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thehangingtree said:
...is that a medical device???

t
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Melissa is in fact referring to Frank Zappa's best album.
Which features a classic warning that everyone should heed this time of year.
"Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow."
Couldn't find a decent live version.
 
Pressured by PETS (People for the Ethical Treatment of Slaves), the proprietors of the coffee shop had the coffee-grinding slave bard had her submit to her annual veterinary visit (performed by Dr. Tree)...
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He recommended Eul get occasional outdoor exercise and had her demonstrate what he had in mind...
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With their prize coffee-grinding slave bard off-line they decided to give something back to the community...
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tree
 
melissa said:
BTW Beware of fake imported quotation marks from China. They illegally harvest our unguarded apostrophes then weld them together in sweat shops. The market in quotations has crashed. Invest wisely.
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they're "everywhere" -
it's a "world domination conspiracy"

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Eulalia said:
or should that be Hans's? :p​
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Dear Melissa,

You were correct the first time. I think nouns which end in an ¨s¨ indicate a possessive form by adding a single apostrophe (´) after the ¨s¨ only. My surname is Collins, so a possessive form would appear as ¨ Collins´ ¨. As in my case, the inclusion/addition of quotation marks, commas et cetera may cloud the appropriate spelling and/or grammatical syntax beyond recognition.

Carpe Deum.

Warm regards, Ranger 1.

P.S. I've tried to establish which symbols are available using a standard Mac keyboard with combinations of "shift" and/or "alt" keys as operators for every key on the keyboard. I was, at the time, looking for the key combination to insert a "£" symbol and thought it a worthwhile exercise in symmantics. On several occasions since, I have come to realise I need to redo the exercise again with a smidgeon more attention to accuracy of progression through the exercise. Do anyone know if there is a treatise on this 'symbol' extrapolation chart somewhere which I could view to ensure I lift my game grammatically, please?
 
Ranger 1, the best I can suggest is doing a time warp and attend a mid-1960's Catholic grade school run by Dominican nuns... you will learn:D

T

...but really go to a bookstore that has used textbooks and if you find one that shows how to diagram sentences it will probably cover the most of what you are looking for...

...Tree is way behind on his drinking tonight due to a cultural interruption so something popped into his head...

"Ain't" really isn't a word and thus it is not a contraction as "isn't" is so shouldn't it be spelled "aint" but it ain't???:confused:
 
thehangingtree said:
Ranger 1, the best I can suggest is doing a time warp and attend a mid-1960's Catholic grade school run by Dominican nuns... you will learn:D

T

...but really go to a bookstore that has used textbooks and if you find one that shows how to diagram sentences it will probably cover the most of what you are looking for...

...Tree is way behind on his drinking tonight due to a cultural interruption so something popped into his head...

"Ain't" really isn't a word and thus it is not a contraction as "isn't" is so shouldn't it be spelled "aint" but it ain't???:confused:
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Truly classic, T. My oppressors were the "Sisters of Mercy" - a misnomer if ever one applied!

Amen, Ranger 1.
 
I think nouns which end in an ¨s¨ indicate a possessive form by adding a single apostrophe (´) after the ¨s¨ only. My surname is Collins, so a possessive form would appear as ¨ Collins´ ¨. As in my case, the inclusion/addition of quotation marks, commas et cetera may cloud the appropriate spelling and/or grammatical syntax beyond recognition.
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Consulting recent editions of Fowler's Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules (the Oxford Univ Press style guide), Butcher's Copy Editing (Cambridge U.P. ditto), and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: all say that English names ending -s should have -s's, e.g. Dickens's novels, St. James's Park, Bridget Jones's Diary etc. Fowler adds the same rule for French names (in English texts) e.g. Rabelais's ('it being assumed that English readers know the pronunciation of the French names' :D). However, use -s' on names where the final syllable is pronounced [iz], e.g. Bridges', Moses'; on names of more than 2 syllables where -s's would sound awkward; on Classical names e.g. Socrates'; and also Jesus'. The Longman Guide to English Usage does, however, acknowledge that forms like Dickens', James', Jones' etc. are now more common. None of them mention Dutch names! :amen:
 
Eulalia said:
Consulting recent editions of Fowler's Modern English Usage, Hart's Rules (the Oxford Univ Press style guide), Butcher's Copy Editing (Cambridge U.P. ditto), and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors: all say that English names ending -s should have -s's, e.g. Dickens's novels, St. James's Park, Bridget Jones's Diary etc. Fowler adds the same rule for French names (in English texts) e.g. Rabelais's ('it being assumed that English readers know the pronunciation of the French names' :D). However, use -s' on names where the final syllable is pronounced [iz], e.g. Bridges', Moses'; on names of more than 2 syllables where -s's would sound awkward; on Classical names e.g. Socrates'; and also Jesus'. The Longman Guide to English Usage does, however, acknowledge that forms like Dickens', James', Jones' etc. are now more common. None of them mention Dutch names! :amen:
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