tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post3255063606795545529..comments2022-11-13T01:04:37.061-08:00Comments on Publisher’s Round-up: The Possessive Apostrophe His OriginUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-35714752322242203562014-07-25T11:26:18.202-07:002014-07-25T11:26:18.202-07:00Excellent work, Anonymous! Yes, I believe thatt is...Excellent work, Anonymous! Yes, I believe thatt is correctt. I had forgotten, naturally.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339437656346986056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-26709606915101753612014-07-25T06:46:12.576-07:002014-07-25T06:46:12.576-07:00If memory serves correctly, the name of the "...<br />If memory serves correctly, the name of the "bespectacled hairy cousin" of the Addams family was spelled cousin Itt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-29426457046895853112014-07-10T14:42:22.941-07:002014-07-10T14:42:22.941-07:00Well yes, of course, johnny phenothiazine--but I b...Well yes, of course, johnny phenothiazine--but I believe you're thinking of Thing in THE ADDAMS FAMILY rather than It. The character named "It" was the bespectacled hairy cousin. THE MUNSTERS lacked such an intrinsically interesting cast of characters, though Eddie's pet dragon Spot was a nice touch.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07339437656346986056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-15227771615931766752014-07-10T13:17:24.346-07:002014-07-10T13:17:24.346-07:00re: Damian Crudder's comment
Unless of cours...re: Damian Crudder's comment <br /><br />Unless of course you mean the genitive of the proper noun "It." I mean the character in the teevee show "The Munsters." (There's also a novel titled "It.") It's easy to see its correctness in the sentence "It's box is matte black."johnny phenothiazinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01128994712643274580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-8143743731020197312014-03-25T11:21:01.168-07:002014-03-25T11:21:01.168-07:00At only three letters, ITS-the genitive of IT-is t...At only three letters, ITS-the genitive of IT-is the most misspelt word in the language; it has NO apostrophe.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588774157884834412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-3414387877327538462014-03-25T11:18:54.167-07:002014-03-25T11:18:54.167-07:00ITS, the genitive of IT, is the most misspelt word...ITS, the genitive of IT, is the most misspelt word in English-and only three letters long.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588774157884834412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-75711450931264134582013-09-28T05:32:10.371-07:002013-09-28T05:32:10.371-07:00I would suggest an additional theory: punctuation ...I would suggest an additional theory: punctuation is parsely. Some writers will tuck in a bit because it looks nice, even if it adds nothing of substance.Gladlylearnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04783357993969777384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-80862021724349206782013-04-14T18:50:14.319-07:002013-04-14T18:50:14.319-07:00How about the Latin 3rd declension genitive -is, a...How about the Latin 3rd declension genitive -is, as in Iohannis, Iohelis, Vercingetoricis? Such that through typograhic mutation (sorry, unfamilar with the terminology), either the entire 'i' was shorten to an apostrophe, or, maybe, only the dot remained.<br /><br />Could it be possible that, as the use of Latin, and "Latinization", decreased in the literary world, many non-roman names retained their original form ,instead of being romanized (i.e. morphed into an -us or -a form)? Eventually not just proper names, but all nouns adopted a simpler representation of this possessive genitive.<br /><br />I'm probably way off my rocker, but, with Latin constituting 60% of modern English's vocabulary, as well as heavily influencing its grammatical foundation, one could (albeit audaciously) argue that this one holds just as much water as the, presently still undecided, "his" and "-es" theories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-86891540832079524642011-10-03T04:55:46.141-07:002011-10-03T04:55:46.141-07:00And then there is the burgeoning use of the apostr...And then there is the burgeoning use of the apostrophe in simple plurals...asraelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491523739371675288.post-50363278247150316682011-09-03T07:46:53.230-07:002011-09-03T07:46:53.230-07:00Speaking of common errors...
"I am not one o...Speaking of common errors...<br /><br />"I am not one of those people who dismisses Wikipedia..." is incorrect. You are not one of those people who DISMISS Wikipedia. "Dismiss" must agree in number with "people", not "one" or "I." That is, there is a group of people who dismiss and you are not one of them as opposed to there is a group of people who dismiss and, though one of them, you do not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com