Comments on: Grammar Lesson: Bridget Jones’s Diary

By: claybanes

claybanes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:37:01 +0000

Banes’s peeve. Dropping the possessive s from surnames is a new affectation, like I for me and myself for I. Get used to it.

By: claybanes

claybanes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:37:00 +0000

Banes’s peeve. Dropping the possessive s from surnames is a new affectation, like I for me and myself for I. Get used to it.

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HTMLGIANT / Grammar Lesson: Mom, I’ve decided to get a MFA! — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:11:59 +0000

[...] Higgs’ post schooled me on the proper use of the apostrophe after singular nouns that end in ’s’ to show [...]

By: Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:09 +0000

Nathan Tyree, you contrarian, I think Mean Week is having a negative effect on you.

By: Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Nathan Tyree, you contrarian, I think Mean Week is having a negative effect on you.

By: Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:18:32 +0000

Yes of course I pronounce it Brid-get Jones-es Diary. The diary belongs to Bridget Jones. How is this even a question? If you pronounce it Brid-get Jones Diary you would sound like a goofball, not to mention the fact that you would not be conveying the same information.

Some days I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone.

Thank heavens for Mean Week.

By: Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:18:00 +0000

Some days I feel like I am living in the Twilight Zone.

Thank heavens for Mean Week.

By: Nathan Tyree

Nathan Tyree — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:55:46 +0000

Well in your case it is obviously Higgs’s

By: Nathan Tyree

Nathan Tyree — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:55:00 +0000

Well in your case it is obviously Higgs’s

By: Matt Cozart

Matt Cozart — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:43:31 +0000

“Do we pronounce the move Brid-get Jones-es Diary?”

I actually do. I pronounce it that way every day.