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One other little punctuation mark one can have feelings about and that is the ’
for possession. Well feel as you like about that, I can see and I do see that for many that for some the possessive case ’
has a gentle tender insinuation that makes ’
very difficult to definitely decide to do without it. One does do without it, I do, I mostly always do, but I cannot deny that from time to time I feel myself having regrets and from time to time I put ’
in to make the possessive case. I absolutely do not like ’
and leaving ’
out I feel no regret, there it is unnecessary and not ornamental but inside a word and its s well perhaps, perhaps ’
does appeal by its weakness to your weakness. At least at any rate from time to time I do find myself letting |
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