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Punctuation queens - need advice please!

117 replies

oliveoil · 06/02/2004 14:14

My boring report has sent me doolally.

Describing The Judges' Entrance - as in several judges use the entrance - have I done it right?

Or is is Judge's - but does that mean only one?

Or just judges?

arrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Pregnancy does addle the brain

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ks · 06/02/2004 20:15

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Coddy · 06/02/2004 20:16

codette makes me soundlike a french resistance fighter...

ks · 06/02/2004 20:17

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Coddy · 06/02/2004 20:17

I will go and think of other posers for you...

binkie · 06/02/2004 21:47

add a belated vote for judges'

if you think of those Victorian schools, would have looked very odd if the gates said "boy's door" and "girl's door"

argument by analogy

spacemonkey · 06/02/2004 21:49

i'd say judge's is correct if you're talking about a courtroom where only one judge is ever there at any one time

bunnyrabbit · 06/02/2004 21:57

mmm but yet toilet doors always say Ladies and Mens......

BR

bunnyrabbit · 06/02/2004 21:58

Oh yes, and of course you realise that you are all completely mad....

Janh · 06/02/2004 22:00

BR, they don't though, they say Ladies and Gentlemen - plural, no apostrophes. (Or else they say something twee like bucks and does ugh ugh.)

btw did you ever get baby stuff for Munich sorted out?

Oakmaiden · 06/02/2004 22:04

OK - since you are all here - is it "todays leftovers" or "today's leftovers"?

twiglett · 06/02/2004 22:09

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Oakmaiden · 06/02/2004 22:10

That is what I thought. My husband disagreed. But I KNEW he was wrong. And wanted to prove it.

popsycal · 06/02/2004 22:10

in can confirm twiglett's correct answer....
the correct answer belonging to twiglett!!!

ooooh i love these threads!!!!

popsycal · 06/02/2004 22:11

mr oaky - you are wrong wrong wrong

suzywong · 06/02/2004 22:12

Is this a quiz or a serious query?

tillymint · 06/02/2004 22:13

What about,
today is leftovers
don't you use an apostrophe for missed letters?
..or shall a crawl back under my stone and butt out?

popsycal · 06/02/2004 22:13

there are two types of apostrophe....contractions - missing letters
and possession - to indicate that something belongs to someone.....

popsycal · 06/02/2004 22:14

sorry - came over all teachery then

Oakmaiden · 06/02/2004 22:14

That would work, but wasn't the sense in which it was being used.

spacemonkey · 06/02/2004 22:14

i always thought i was the only pedant in this village until i found mumsnet

easy · 06/02/2004 22:15

has anyone bought "Eats, Shoots and Leaves"?, I bought it for dh at xmas, and he tried to get me a copy too

spacemonkey · 06/02/2004 22:15

"today is leftovers" doesn't really make any sense anyway does it?

popsycal · 06/02/2004 22:15

oh god - have you not seenthe thread i started on this......wild debate!!!
hold on

bunnyrabbit · 06/02/2004 22:15

Indeedy. There is only one today. so no such thing as todays. Unless of course you mean two days, which is altogether different... and there weren't any leftovers anyway 'cos DH is a pig!!

JanH,
Yep mostly, tah for asking. Only thing left is to buy a stroller.

BR

popsycal · 06/02/2004 22:16

don't read this thread unless you are a punctuation geek...like me....

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