Only lovers of a certain genre of film will enjoy this one - there are some of you out there - "rath -er," as Terry Thomas would say.
Terry Thomas
St. James the Moor Slayer
Blessed John Henry Newman
Cardinal Manning
El Caudillo
Pope Benedict
Ubi Petrus Ibi Ecclesia
St. JoseMaria Escriva
Lepanto
About Me
- the owl of the remove
- Catholic priest, hidden in an obscure Northeastern diocese. English. Orthodox,
St. Peter and St. Andrew
St. Peter and St. Andrew
6 comments:
There should not be an apostrophe in lovers. An apostrophe denotes possession or a missing letter(e.g. isn't = is not).
Ding dong!
Thank you - my grammar has got worse as I get older!
I don't think you need a possessive apostrophe. If you said the lover's film or the lovers' film i.e. that the lover/lovers owned the film then a posessive apostrophe would be needed.IMHO
A young friend of mine had the idea of a nerdy kind of Disneyworld called "Grammar Camp" - I feel we could be on the cusp of something beautiful.
My son would probably LOVE to run grammar camp. Where can he go to apply???
Liz, your son should read Eats, Shoots and Leaves - the zero tolerance approach to punctuation by Lynne Truss
The title of the book comes from this joke
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
“Why?” asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
“Well, I’m a panda,” he says, at the door. “Look it up.”
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. “Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.”
When I read this book I became convinced that Lynne is my separated-at-birth-twin! lol
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