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Sunday 18 May 2014
Apostrophe catastrophe, # 42
Today, wandering apostrophe syndrome:
Nosheen Khan, Women’s Poetry of the First World War (University Press of Kentucky, 1988), p. 51.Link: GoogleBooks
wandering apostrophe – soldiers’ and soldiers transposed
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