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Cars, girlfriends, and apostrophes

by Jay Gabler, TC Daily Planet • June 23, 2008 • Maybe these things only occur to me because I’m an editor, but I just overheard a comment outside the Spyhouse that, I reflected, takes on quite different meanings depending on exactly where—or whether—an apostrophe is placed in the final word.

“The first time I saw you with that car, I thought it was one of your girlfriend’s.”

“The first time I saw you with that car, I thought it was one of your girlfriends’.”

“The first time I saw you with that car, I thought it was one of your girlfriends.”

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