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Newt
19:22 / 25.09.03
"Lindseys email addy"

With this sentence, do I need to put the ' after the S in Lindsey, or between the Y and the S, or is it not needed? I could really do with some clarification on how exactly the ' should be used in any context.

Cheers in advance dude!
 
 
Linus Dunce
19:32 / 25.09.03
Apostrophe basics:

Lindseys = more than one Lindsey

Lindsey's email = an email belonging to Lindsey

Lindseys' website = an website belonging to more than one Lindsey (I don't know, maybe a Lindsey club :-)

But ...

It's = short for "it is."

Its website = A website belonging to it.

Its' = always wrong.

That's about it really. If you have something belonging to somebody or thing that ends in an 'S', it's OK to write either "the boss's website" or the "boss' website."
 
 
Lurid Archive
19:33 / 25.09.03
Between the y and the s. To construct the possessive, at the end of the word and before the s if the noun is singular or if it is plural but not constructed with an s, I think.

So,

girl's football team (a single girl owning a football team)
girls' football team (girls owning, or comprising said football team)
women's football team - as above
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:14 / 25.09.03
I'm an apostrophe,
I shorten what you say to me,
I'm not a comma, I'm not a full stop,
Don't put me on the line, I go at the top!

(From Look and Read, which also had the Magic E song.)
 
 
Mourne Kransky
20:31 / 25.09.03
"addy" is such an ugly contraction.

This Addy is lovely though:
  
 
gingerbop
22:10 / 25.09.03
I'd imagine any sentence with the word "addy" doesnt require apostrophes. Is Haus an apostrophe expert?
 
 
Ganesh
22:20 / 25.09.03
Every sentence which requires apostrophes requires apostrophes.
 
 
gingerbop
22:21 / 25.09.03
^that was a great sentence, which didn't require apostrophes (require apastropes)^
 
 
Ganesh
22:28 / 25.09.03
The fact that it didn't require apostrophes meant that it didn't require apostrophes. If it had described the email "addy" belonging to Lindsey or the communal email "addy" to which groups of Lindseys might write, it'd have required an apostrophe to tell us which.
 
 
gingerbop
22:41 / 25.09.03
What I meant, was that it was a great sentence (because of repeatingness). Not requiring apostrophes was incidental. I think im too easily amused.
 
 
w1rebaby
22:45 / 25.09.03
I don't require apostrophes. I merely choose to use them.

I could stop using them any time I wanted.
 
 
grant
00:24 / 26.09.03
Why Haus?
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:33 / 26.09.03
Because it's related and because I love this comic:
  
 
Newt
00:36 / 26.09.03
That pissed-off flower deserves his own comic!

Grant: This is the kind of question Haus could answer in his sleep, is why!
 
 
A
02:16 / 26.09.03
This thread made me briefly consider changing my suitname to "Count Addy". It was very briefly, though.
 
 
Jub
08:41 / 26.09.03
"addy" means address?
That's awful. *shudder*

Aside - Ganesh, there's a book out (soon?) called "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" which you may like, by Lynne Truss. All about misplaces apostrophes, commas etc.
 
 
Quantum
09:08 / 26.09.03
Bob the Angry Flower does have his own comic. It's Bob's Comic's extract's anger's funniness that deserves it's own 'addy'.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
09:10 / 26.09.03
Everything's coming up roses
 
 
Mourne Kransky
09:35 / 26.09.03
George Bernard Shaw despised and reviled the apostrophe and wrote all his great plays without any apostrophising at all. He was rubbish in bed though.

I quite like 'em, however, if used with élan.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
09:42 / 26.09.03
Kegboy- thank you so much for posting that. It now resides on the noticeboard at work where all the illiterate day-shift fucks whose summaries I have to rewrite can see it.
 
  
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