And lo on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:00:18 -0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull>  
did spake, saying:

> 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...

Or as Warp suggests a "notice of one week" and a "notice of four weeks".  
I'm still stuck on a site near me - is it "Weavers Wharf" as advertised,  
"Weaver's Wharf" as the council put it, or possible "Weavers' Wharf" which  
is what I called it?

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Phil Cook

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