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1948 Nash Ambassador Cabriolet [604871]

1948 Nash Ambassador [604871] in Fast Forward, TV Series, 1989-1992 IMDB Ep. 4.16

Class: Cars, Convertible — Model origin: US

1948 Nash Ambassador Cabriolet [604871]

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Big Dave VA

◊ 2014-07-21 21:02

 1948 Nash Ambassador

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nzcarnerd NZ

◊ 2014-07-21 22:06

 I see the film maker has made the most common mistake in the English language; the misuse of the apostrophe. It is 1940s not 1940's. It is easy to find out the correct use just by using Google. This mistake is made by too many people who have English as a first language, many of whom post stuff on the net, so it is understandable when non-English people do it too.

Ingo DE

◊ 2014-07-21 22:15

 In German it became so terrible with the "Deppenapostroph" http://www.deppenapostroph.info/30-neue-apostrophen-katastrophen/ since the early 90ies. Correctly it's nearly never used, but it's a kind of Anglicism, coming up in the last decades (strangely faster and stronger in the former DDR than in the West).
Caused by my usual prejudice I generally clssify any user of that immediately as an low-class idiot.


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electra225 IT

◊ 2014-07-22 22:30

 Interesting story... I was sure it was correct to use the apostrophe in English as in this title.

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ElSaxo IT

◊ 2014-07-22 23:03
Apostrophe Protection Society wrote Where should the apostrophe go if a word ends in an ‘s’ ?

The ending of the word is irrelevant. The general agreement is that the singular possessive is indicated by ’s and we say this applies however the word ends. Thus it should be James’s book, not James’ book, which is a plural possessive.

What if there are several people called James who share the book? The plural of James is Jameses and plural possession is denoted by s’ so it should be this is the Jameses’ book.

http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/index.html


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nzcarnerd NZ

◊ 2014-07-26 21:54

 Electra, the apostrophe is used to denote a missing letter, as in haven't an abbreviation of have not. Supposedly the old - as in many hundred years ago - way writing a possessive was to add 'es' but the e was gradually dropped and replaced with an apostrophe. People put an apostrophe in those dates, as in this movie, because they think - wrongly - that it is an abbreviation. Another common one is when 1940s is abbreviated to 40s. The correct place for the apostrophe is before the 4 - '40s - not after the 0 - 40's. But if you are referring to a person's age then it is just 40s - as in "he is in his 40s".

As noted above the use of possessives where a word ends with s is something of a grey area.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2014-07-27 10:29

 My surname ends with an "s" and it has caused trouble to others throughout my working life. I know what it should be, my English teacher (Miss Keates!) sorted it out many years ago.

The added and incorrect apostrophe is known in England as a greengrocer's apostrophe, i.e. "Cabbage's £1 each Carrot's £2 a kilo".

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