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Life-long writer and editor here -- your advice regarding the plural noun plus modifier is spot on. Your explanation regarding the apostrophe is questionable unless it's specific to legal writing. That punctuation denotes possession or stands in for missing letters: Greg's dog can't bark. I don't see the function for what you're saying.
random english question i've had numerous night shift debates on. My last name is Lowerts so when my wife and I were both present on the ops floor would it be Sgt Lowerts's, Lowerts' or Lowerti?
Why is there the need for an apostrophe before the s?
As an English teacher and someone who likes to correct people silently (most of the time), I have not seen this used.
RBIs or RsBI....tomatoe tomotoe.
As a court appointed friend once told me, do what makes you happy....then wait for somebody on here to correct you.
The debate is heating up
HBTFDs
Interesting, you learn something every day. I haven't seen the apostrophe in that scenario. I have always thought....
A "three and out"
Those "three and out"s
*HBTFD's
/s
Thanks for this!
Don't forget son-in-laws...that drives me nuts...it's sons-in-law!
Thought I stumbled into the nerds message board for a minute.
I said three and outs a lot in the 4th qtr against LSU. Such as, How many &^%$# three and outs, can one team have.
Petition to rename the phrase “three-and-out” to “offensive offense”.
”Dad, we had four offensive offenses in the second half alone”.
I will never understand
*I ain't never gonna understand.
I figured as much Brandon. And I imagine most fans don't care one way or the other.
For those who do, the distinction is that "in-law" is a modifier for "sister" (so sisters gets pluralized just like courts martial and attorneys general), whereas "and out" does not modify "three." In other words, "three and out" is a phrase whereas sister-in-law is not.
But I think you should keep saying it like you do just for fun!