Re: o/s side light help

On 15 Oct 2007 08:41:21 GMT, Adrian <toomany2cvs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Ian Dalziel (Ian Dalziel <iandalziel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>) gurgled happily,
>sounding much like they were saying:
>
>>>> Only if the singular is Cauli'.
>
>>>Not so. The apostrophe has more than one use. In this case it denotes
>>>that something is missing, i.e. the "flower" part of Cauliflower.
>>>Therefore cauli' is correct. Same with 'bus = Omnibus
>
>>>Many of these longer words have of course long since dropped from our
>>>vocabulary so it just depends how picky you want to be.
>
>
>> Did you even read my post?
>> 
>> Six words, and you didn't bother reading them?
>> 
>> Cauli's is acceptable ONLY IF you use cauli' as the singular. I don't,
>> and I'm prepared to bet you don't either.
>
>I do. In fact I'm making Cauli(') Cheese for dinner tonight.

Bah. But then *you* probably put an apostrophe in pota'to.

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Ian D