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In reply to the discussion: For those who still don't know that plurals in English are generally not spelled with an apostrophe [View all]ChazInAz
(2,599 posts)I have been a high school English teacher, I am an actor....English is one of my tools.
My boss, the last one before I retired, was incapable of using proper grammar or correct spelling. Quite often, he'd ask me the proper spelling of some words whilst toiling over a memo. Being a helpful guy, I'd tell him. That was alright by me...glad to be a resource in the interest of better communications. Apparently some higher-up pointed out to him that it was inappropriate. So the requests stopped, and his memos became virtually unintelligible. Still being a helpful guy, I started correcting his spelling and grammar in red pencil, grading them and sending them back. The memos stopped appearing after a while. I don't know why.
Shortly thereafter, he hired a secretary.
I was just doing my part to create jobs.
Now I'm retired, but I still know my shit!