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Ones and Zeros East
the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism
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Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, you idiots
from Bob the Angry Flower is the only guide to the Apostrophe that anyone will ever need.
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Are you sure the apostrophes in the pluralizations of letters aren't because they are contractions of the phonetic spellings of the letters?
Of course, that theory rather falls down for "aitch."
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Date: 2006-06-26 06:07 pm (UTC)Of course, that theory rather falls down for "aitch."