Comments on: Apostrophe rule: 100s or 100′s? http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/22/apostrophe-rule-100s-or-100s/ A blog about good business writing and bad. Especially the bad. Because there's so much more of the bad. Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:05:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Clare Lynch http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/22/apostrophe-rule-100s-or-100s/comment-page-1/#comment-1075 Clare Lynch Fri, 29 May 2009 08:16:35 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=194#comment-1075 Hi Merry I've a post planned on one of my chief bug-bears - the comma splice, so do keep popping by! Clare Hi Merry

I’ve a post planned on one of my chief bug-bears – the comma splice, so do keep popping by!

Clare

]]> By: Merry http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/22/apostrophe-rule-100s-or-100s/comment-page-1/#comment-1073 Merry Fri, 29 May 2009 03:12:36 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=194#comment-1073 Now I'm wondering if you've got a post around here on the correct use of the comma. I swear, I've heard more editors rant about a lack of comma usage in slush - makes you wonder what their submissions look like. Now I’m wondering if you’ve got a post around here on the correct use of the comma.

I swear, I’ve heard more editors rant about a lack of comma usage in slush – makes you wonder what their submissions look like.

]]> By: Clare Lynch http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/22/apostrophe-rule-100s-or-100s/comment-page-1/#comment-1068 Clare Lynch Fri, 22 May 2009 14:57:05 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=194#comment-1068 One might be tempted to deduce that too much television is bad for one's grammar . . . One might be tempted to deduce that too much television is bad for one’s grammar . . .

]]> By: smfifteen http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/2009/05/22/apostrophe-rule-100s-or-100s/comment-page-1/#comment-1067 smfifteen Fri, 22 May 2009 14:51:22 +0000 http://www.daccreative.co.uk/goodcopybadcopy/?p=194#comment-1067 The examples of this that I notice most often are "TV's", and "Video's" - usually in foot-high yellow letters in electrical shop windows. Also, it's surprising how many music box-sets one can find that proclaim "3 CD's of Your Favourite Tracks!". The examples of this that I notice most often are “TV’s”, and “Video’s” – usually in foot-high yellow letters in electrical shop windows. Also, it’s surprising how many music box-sets one can find that proclaim “3 CD’s of Your Favourite Tracks!”.

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