Anyway- it turns out our good friend, esteemed UVM English professor, blogger, school commissioner, Daysee award winner, Obama delegate, frequent visitor to Sweden and state senate candidate Philip Baruth also adds an s. From his post today on John Edwards :
"...But what does Edwards mean when he says that “time will tell” whether it was a good move to run for President in light of his semi-public infidelity?
That he may yet wind up winning the 2008 campaign? That history will one day realize that Elizabeth Edwards was not an admirable, long-suffering American icon but a figure of immense evil who deserved everything she got and more?
That Edwards’s love child may one day discover a cure for cancer, and dedicate a 2032 Nobel Prize to the courageous, free-loving father who made it all possible?" [Emphasis added.]
I remember that.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying you are wrong, because you're not, but the fact that Philip does it the same way is not what makes you right. Philip is wrong about plenty of things, as are you. :)
Of course, it's in Strunk and White.
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Ooooooh Haik, I like cockamamie, too.
Also in Chicago Manual of Style. See Sections 6.24 and exceptions in 6.26-30.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Chicago Manual of Style, "Edwards's" is correct.
Heh heh. Jay said "I like cock..."
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Oh give me a break. It's Friday, and I trust in Jay's sense of humor and/or forgiveness.
Speaking of two different ways of doing things both being ok (which I did acknowledge Charity- although Poopsie will agree with you that I'm wrong about a lot-)
Apparently there are two different ways to spell "cockamamie." "Cockamamie," or "cockamamy." Although blogger spell check disagrees.
Who'da thunk it?
Blogger's spell check is lame. So is Firefox's. I swear, they have 19-year-old college interns with limited vocabularies programming those things. Any word only used by people over 30 is foreign.
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