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Didn't this thread get moved to CPF0000?

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
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On 9/6/2013 11:32 PM, Booth Martin wrote:
Capitalization is important too. "Today i helped my uncle jack off the
horse" can mean a couple of things, depending on capitalization.

However my pet peeve remains those who start with "I don't think ...."
OK. Fine. Your business. But why admit it?




On 9/6/2013 10:09 PM, PaulMmn wrote:
> But you do NOT need an apostrophe to say things like...
>
> SODAS FOR SALE
>
> "SODAS for sale" means there is more than one soda for sale.
> "SODA'S for sale" means soda is for sale. I don't think
> that's what they had in mind!
>
> I've seen it as "soda's for sale" all too often! People see that
> trailing "S" and assume it needs an apostrophe!
>
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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