[OT] Quest for linux supported Wireless

[Jeff Vian]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

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>>From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
>>[mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
>>Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:40 AM
>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>Subject: Re: Quest for linux supported Wireless
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>>>As an aside, I don't wish to be pedantic but the plural of "bozo" is
>>>"bozos".  One of my pet peeves is seeing people use "'s" 
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>>for plurals.
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>>>"'s" denotes a possessive form of a noun or pronoun or a 
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>>contraction of
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>>>a word and "is"--it does NOT indicate plurality:
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>>That should be:
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>>	...a word and "is" or "has"...
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>>Of course, "has" can be posessive, too, so I suppose I'm being
>>redundant.
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>>See?  I even correct myself.
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>What about the "s'"?? can you explain on that. I keep getting 
>confused over that one..
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A bit OT for the subject :-),  but the s' also indicates posessive in some context.  As you put it here Ricks' is incorrect..

In most cases, words ending with s can be made posessive by adding the ' 
at the end. Note that Rick does not end in s, therefore Rick's would be 
correct.  

I am not an english teacher, but I know there are examples that do not 
follow the normal rules.