Subject: Re: Xantus, Xantus', or Xantus's??
Date: Nov 28 11:08:36 1997
From: Kelly Cassidy - kelly at salmo.cqs.washington.edu
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Hal Opperman wrote:
> The real USGS mission (admit it, guys) was to rid the world of apostrophes.
I cant den'y that. As a map'maker myself, I can appreciate the
difficultie's of making apostrophe's visible on top of a bunch of
complicated terrain features. It'd look like the map had a lot of orphan
s's (ses or ss?). Or like there were a of of S Rivers, S Mountains, etc.
>
> Your's,
>
> Hal Opperman
Regard's
Kelly
Kelly Cassidy -- Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Box 357980, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195
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