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01 September 2005
Girl talk. Tampons! Yeast infections! Yeats infections! Yeats' inflections! Slang for genitalia! We got it all, baby!
I really hate the s-apostrophe rule applied to singular nouns. I strongly disagree with it. In fact, I don't really agree with the plural version, either. I also hate the American "punctuation inside the quotation marks" rule and won't abide it.
I also hate the American "punctuation inside the quotation marks" rule and won't abide it.
I am contractually required to abide by it in all my writing for a certain website co-owned by a media empire and an evil empire, and considering much of what I write requires referring to Movie and TV titles in quotes... it's hell, man, it's hell...