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    Ah, yootoob! Last refuge of the intelligentsia/cultural élite...

    I almost forgot to ask, Owen: does the "grocer's apostrophe" exist on that side of the pond? Here in the ewekay we're working on a way to turn them into renewable fuels (that is, the country is rife with stray "apostrophe's").
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    Nope, people in the U.S. are probably just as bad the the British. Perhaps moreso, Americans are very stubborn, and don't appreciate this whole concept of "rules" telling them how to write things.

    I'd just like to mention that Truss's first and second chapters deal extensively with those problems. In fact in the second chapter, she wrote page after page of examples of people using apostrophes improperly.
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    save this page, and study it for my next TOEFL test....
    Good work, very much thanks......

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