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Old Jun 7, 2012 | 9:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve in Olympia
6's and 7's
the 1930's
78 RPM's
p's and q's

Please note that none of these are possessives! It simply makes them easier to read.
I disagree.

When I was at school the teaching of grammar, punctuation and the details of how to construct sentences and paragraphs (which included diagramming sentences) was a constant throughout primary grades.

The addition of those apostrophes would have been unacceptable purely on aesthetic grounds; the teachers would have accepted them only for possessive use.

English is still in flux and I'm willing to change with it (although I dislike txt spk) but I find the examples given above unpleasant on the page. "Fish and Chip's" is also well out of order; with respect to young Master BicesterTerrier I'd say "that Silver card is James's".
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