Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:53:53 +0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 
>> For 5 points, somebody tell me which one of those is the *correct* one 
>> given the intended meaning. [Yes, they mean different things. No, you 
>> can't just pick whichever one you fancy...]
> 
> The rule is: apostrophe "s" if it belongs to the word. Plain "s" if it is a
> plural.

And if it belongs *and* is plural... apostrophe *after* the S. (But not 
a lot of people know that.)

So it should, in fact, be "one week's notice" and "four weeks' notice" 
respectively. Interesting how they got it right later but messed up at 
the beginning...

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