[TAG] Punctuation usage

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Rick Moen wrote:

>Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (jimregan at o2.ie):
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>>(Though I do remember that "the book belonging to James" was supposed to 
>>be written "James' book").
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>Only as an archaism, grandfathered in, over mild objections from us
>crusty grammarians -- for the compelling reason that ruling out of order 
>time-honoured expressions like "for Jesus' sake" clearly isn't going to
>fly.
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We had some fairly old books :) I can remember one of the Christian 
Brothers getting quite emotional on the topic.

>The classic statement on this matter is William Strunk, Jr.'s _Elements
>of Style_  The very first item in the Elementary Rules setion is as
>follows:
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Thanks for the pointer. I found it here: http://www.bartleby.com/141/ 
(though not at Project Gutenberg, strangely).