Kurt <kurt.brown at travelnospaminc.com> wrote in news:cur5bn$k4u$1 @news.spamcop.net: > We're in a catch 22. > you obviously never read the book. -- "Some witty person in rec.arts.sf.composition (I forget who) called them feral apostrophes. Untamed, unregulated, they roam the wastes of the English language and pop up where lea'st expected."