"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote
> Orchid XP v7 wrote:

> > So it should, in fact, be "one week's notice" and "four weeks' notice"
> > respectively.

> Except the notice doesn't belong to the week.

Unless it's Mr. Week that's quitting.

> It's "four weeks notice" and "one week notice". :-)  At least in my
experience.

The "'s" (i.e. "of") need not always indicate possession; "a day's work"
doesn't mean the day owns the work. A "day's work" is "work _of_ a day('s
worth)", a "week's notice" is "a notice _of_ a week('s duration)"...

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