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Punctuation Poll
Jul
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26th
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2005
05:23 pm
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Date:
2005-07-26 09:06 pm (UTC)
From:
davidlevine
Following the dictate in
The Elements of Style
that the posessive is formed by adding apostrophe-s (except for certain ancient proper names such as
Moses'
and
Jesus'
, and exception that drives me to distraction), the answer is
Waterstones's's books
.
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Date:
2005-07-26 09:07 pm (UTC)
From:
davidlevine
Um, that should have been
Waterstone's's
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