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50 wordies list
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first listed by:
edwardhenry (180 words)
appears in these lists:
Rime Riche, by colleen
jough's Words, by jough
Meta-words, by hildjj
tez's Words, by tez
A, by rejeneration
davo's Words, by davo
Going Postal, by skipvia
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At last! :-D
Speaking of stickers, help is at hand.
Etymologically: apo-strophe, a from-turning (or turning-from, I guess)
Sounds like you have a lot more guerilla bestickering ahead, sarra.
So the plural of datum is dat'a?
skip, you missed the deliberate irony in that headline!
I am slightly miffed that no-one's reported on my bestickering, long ago, an apostropheless St Philip's Place (also Birmingham). You heard it here first. Or last.
It's a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain.
The Apostrophe Protection Society
No, because CD is more than one letter. The plural is CDs.
Is that true, mollusque? I don't remember ever knowing that. So cd's is correct for more than one cd, is it?
Except for plurals of letters (e.g., "a's", "b's", not "as", "bs").
Goe's without saying.
An apostrophe does not a plural make.
I'd give up my whole apostrophe to have an id.
Remember always to use an apostrophe (not an open quote mark) when it appears at the beginning of a word, e.g. ’cause (for because) and ’60s rather than ‘cause and ‘60s.
Alas, the evil microsoft delights in making unsolicited corrections.
A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea
Don't put apostrophe's where they don't belong.