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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Creative use of an apostrophe
Creative but wrong. More than one student spread the message, so the apostrophe should go after the final S in
students
. From "
Students back U-Pass in full force
" on
24 hours Vancouver
online on November 5, 2010.
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