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June 10th 06, 10:56 PM
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I bought a large capacitance hat for my vertical, but the antenna still gets wet when it rains.
Dave wrote:
Methinks your leg was being pulled. "The SWR with the apostrophe s is a grammatical error. The apostrophe s indicates that the SWR is possessive, that the SWR owns something; or, that the SWR is doing something. The apostrophe s is not plural!! The plural, multiple, SWR is denoted SWRs." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - How To - Use an Apostrophe : http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=119095 PLURALS - When you add an 's' to make a plural, it NEVER takes an apostrophe. Never. There are no exceptions. The same is True for Plurals of Abbreviations - it is A.T.M.s, not A.T.M.'s - itr is G.P.s not G.P.'s. NOTE - These Rules are those which Apply in Modern British English (as taught in High Schools and Universities throughout the Commonwealth). FWIW - The King's English which is often NOT Spoken or Written by Americans. Mind Your Apostrophes http://betweenborders.com/wordsmithi...r-apostrophes/ http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/...wrerrors3.html Punctuation and Capitalization: Using the Apostrophe http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-w.../apostrop.html http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handou...r/g_apost.html http://www.wheaton.edu/learnres/writ...apostrophe.htm http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishwo...ar/using-s.htm http://projects.uwc.utexas.edu/handouts/?q=node/11 http://www.asu.edu/english/englished...hes_pp_5-6.pdf often a mangler and tangler of : Words, Meanings, Capitalization and Punctuation ~ RHF |
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