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Old 05-14-13, 06:25 PM   #26
Platapus
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve View Post

It makes me grind my teeth when people don't know what an apostrophe is for, writing things like torpedo's instead of torpedoes.
I am in the process of conducting mutiny against the government.

The DIA released a writing guidance which promulgated that ALL possessives will end in -- 's.

Torpedo
Torpedo's
Torpedoes
Torpedoes's

uh no. Not gonna happen.
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