Thursday, 31 May 2012

Nitpicking In The Real Sense Of The Word.

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Budget Rant":

"Her critic's..."

There's one of those pesky, incorrectly-used apostrophes that so perturb grammarians. It should be "critics," as in plural, multiple - and there are many, even in the comments section of this blog.
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Note that sly dig ."EVEN in the comments section of this blog."
It's eleven o'clock.
I should make a point of not reading  comments at this time of night. 
I am inclined to wonder how many " perturbed grammarians" are writing blogs people are inclined to read despite "pesky, incorrectly used apostrophes"

















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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous1 June 2012 at 07:51

    The comment was correct. There was only one individual who was pouring out criticism. Use of the singular was appropriate.

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  2. Anonymous2 June 2012 at 15:25

    Do you honestly believe, 7:51, that the anonymous comments that get published that are critical of Councillor Buck are submitted by one person alone? Because I can attest that that isn't the case.

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  3. Anonymous4 June 2012 at 07:44

    I know that I am more than one person.....

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