[Artemisia] Picking linguistic nits OP

[Stephanae Baker]

Of course, the third person neutral pronoun with "teacher" as a  
referent is highly questionable usage in English, anyway. That's  
almost as odd as triple spaces between sentences in the computer age.  
I usually find searching out double spaces when I prepare documents  
for press sufficiently aggravating. But because Padruig was correct  
about populous and populace, perhaps I'll forgive him a couple of  
peculiarities.

Do you think a nurse's wanted might be something akin to the FBI's  
most wanted? What do you think nurses want? My imagination is running  
wild. It's almost as good as last week when I was editing a letter in  
which the writer mentioned that the CIO had recently merged with the  
company. That was pure science fiction for me. But then, my mind does  
have to find a way to entertain itself in my line of work.

Belladonna


On Aug 29, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Elaine wrote:

> Greetings, everyone:
> Lord Padruig said:
> "Subject: [Artemisia] just picking nits, ignore if you aren't picky"
>
> Oh, but I am. Technical writer and all that. Then he makes a valid  
> point
> regarding "populous" vs. "populace,"
>
> and goes on to say:
> "Sorry, just the teacher in me rearing it's ugly head"
>
> The technical writer in me wants to say that there's no apostrophe in
> possessive "its." "It's" is the contraction for "it is."
>
> Cheers
> Caryn
> who saw a bus stop sign today that said "Nurse's wanted" :-P