On 1/14/2011 1:03 PM HeyBub spake thus:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

You apparently have misread or misunderstood that article (which
cannot even be assumed to be correct, being from Wikipedia, the
"encyclopedia" any pimple-faced junior-high-school kid can edit);
"your's" and "their's" are clearly *wrong* and therefore
greengrocer's apostrophes, no matter which side of the pond you're on.

Not to worry. There's the law of Conservation of Apostrophes which states
that "For every instance of an apostrophe's correct use, somewhere in the
world an apostrophe is being used wrongly."

Yes! Few people know about that.

And you must also know of the law of conservation of "R"s; for every
non-rhotic dropping of an "R" ("bothah", "empaah"), there's an equal and
opposite intrusive "R" ("lawr"). (Or to use a U.S. example, "Joisey" and
"terlet" balance perfectly.)


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Comment on quaint Usenet customs, from Usenet:

To me, the *plonk...* reminds me of the old man at the public hearing
who stands to make his point, then removes his hearing aid as a sign
that he is not going to hear any rebuttals.