The alumni rag from my old skool, St Custard’s, arrived today, and I was delighted to see that it contained PEDANTRY, hem hem. In it, an old pupil explains that “one’s”, as in “A Room of One’s Own” is in fact wrong, and “one” should be treated treated like “it”, and hence have no apostrophe. So it should be “A Room of Ones Own”.
I’m not sure I agree, as while “one’s” could be an abbreviation for “one is” (as with “it’s”), “ones” could be a plural- whereas “its” can’t (unless you’re saying something very unusual about the wording of a sentence).
Wot does the panel think?
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prism · 02/05/2014 16:30
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