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  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:54:41 -0400 (EDT)
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Dave,

here is one website...I am sure there are many others that addresses possesive, plural, plural possessive, etc.:

Best Wishe's, (hehehe)
Mark Nelson

Precision Digital Negatives - The System
PDNPrint Forum at Yahoo Groups
www.MarkINelsonPhoto.com

http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm
In a message dated 10/8/07 12:12:11 AM, fotodave@dsoemarko.us writes:


>  That could be a plural form in only
> two cases I can think of:
> -    if the apostrophe took the place of a missing letter,
> which is unusual
> in a word of one syllable, or
> -    if  "pro" is an abbreviation.

Interesting. If I read the above correctly, it seems to confirm what I
learned when I was small. I was taught that with abbreviation, you use
apostrophe for plural, so one DVD, two DVD's. Is that correct?


Dave's













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