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[JacobH Email · WWW]

Not an apostrophe crime and not grammatically incorrect as savings can be made. Where you are going to put your daylight savings and whether they will accrue interest is another matter.

Fair point. Where you do put yours?

[KillerB]

The supermarket was Sainsbury, but only the one in Camberley as far as I could tell, and it was about 3-4 years ago - just after Christmas in their wine clearance sale. I also picked up a half bottle of Y'quem '01 for £50 from the same supermarket.

Taken from here.

The crime is that AHB is talking about one of the great wines of the World - Chateau d'Yquem. Oh the shame.

[jdaw1]

The Bell, Wenden's Ambo, CB11 4JY

[jdaw1]

In a city renowned for it's heritage, the Parliament House Hotel has it's own extensive history.

[jdaw1]

Articles of Association.

This gives details of the company’s internal management affairs, the running of the company and it’s liability..

[jdaw1]

Very impressive and still years from it's peak. 94/199.

Cool scoring system.

[Glenn E.]

jdaw1 is not alone.

Bob the Angry Flower

[AHB]

Very impressive and still years from it's peak. 94/199.

Cool scoring system.

A moderately irritating feature of the iPhone's otherwise excellent spell check on entry capabilities is that it insists on adding an apostrophe between it and s regardless of the context. I can only apologise for having missed this one (and for the fat fingers hitting the 9 instead of the 0).

[jdaw1]

otherwise it's main value would be as an unusual curiosity

Presumably an iPhone problem—the post was signed “Alwx”.

[jdaw1]

(Mod's, may be best to split this into it's own topic)

[jdaw1]

Tawny's work the best for this

also done it with younger VP's as well

old VP's though.

[AHB]

Some advice and guidance is required to avoid a potential apostrophe crime. How should "shall not" be contracted?

[jdaw1]

1. Why contract? Is there a good reason? If not, don’t.
2. Anyway, shan’t (ignore Wikipedia’s vocabulary error), as in I shan’t be drinking 1975s.

[AHB]

1. Why contract? Is there a good reason? If not, don’t.
2. Anyway, shan’t (ignore Wikipedia’s vocabulary error), as in I shan’t be drinking 1975s.

1) Reporting speech, the word used was the contraction of shall not.
2) The question arose as PG Wodehouse uses sha'n't - and I can see why; but I presume from your reply that sha'n't is now considered archaic.