I'm so old I Remember when:

[BigBlueHen53]

BYC just destroyed my grammatically-enviable rant on journalists and genitive case for surnames ending in “S.” I should find new hobbies in life…
All that to say, thank you for spelling the possessive for “Welks” in the only manner I have learned is proper.
Sincerely, someone whose last name ends with “S” so I’ve had a lot of practice.

P.S. after saving my draft for the 3rd time, I will offer evidence for my diatribe: journalists of presumably well-respected publications have (with increasing frequency!!) written possessives of such proper nouns in the form of “Welks’s.” That’s when, irately, I read the term aloud as “Welks-es-es” because it was already “Welks-es” when written “Welks’” and close the article. Anything else they had to say is deemed worthless at this point.​

P.P.S. My original message was so much shorter, but at least I’ve saved the draft for this one 5 7 times. ​

You're most welcome! Your appreciation is appreciated!

I have a pair, I don’t know where they came from. I never wore them because I would have been laughed to scorn by the other girls at church. They were already making fun of my other clothes.

I would wear them with my head held high.

I used to have a surname that ended in S, so I feel your irritation, @tranquiliti!

I also know that words and spellings change (tomorrow used to be to-morrow), and the English language is a living, growing, changing thing, and some people don't seem to know that they need an editor.

Related (really, but eventually), does anyone use the free version of Grammerly?

Hubby is writing a book. He found Grammerly online, and is using the free version to edit. Then he sends the chapter to me. Either he is ignoring the editing suggestions (he says he's not), or Grammerly (free version) doesn't know its its from its it's.

I cannot take an editing program seriously enough to pay for it if the free version doesn't catch that mistake.

I'm sorry, is the book REALLY spelled GRAMMERLY with an E as the second vowel? I would not buy it, if that were the case. Please tell me it is GrammArly and the spelling error is your own. You I can forgive; a professional treatise on grammar misspelling its own topic? That's unforgiveable.

 

[R2elk]

Grammarly

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Grammarly

Whew!

 

[Evadig]

I would wear them with my head held high.

I would now, but when I was thirteen years old and desperately wanted some friends, the gloves went to the wayside. I would have stopped dressing the way I did too, except I had no other clothes and my mom wouldn't get me anything else. In the end I'm glad because I can go anywhere and not care what people think of my dress .

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Still, Sally's right. There's a huge difference between its and it's, and Grammarly should know.

 

[Sally PB]

Please tell me it is GrammArly and the spelling error is your own.

Oh, my, how did I do that!!!

 

[R2elk]

Still, Sally's right. There's a huge difference between its and it's, and Grammarly should know.

Cell phone texts contribute to the problem with many completely ignoring any form of punctuation or capitals anywhere other than the first letter of a sentence.

 

[Sally PB]

Yes, it's Grammarly, and I totally blew that one!

Someone on here might be able to tell me... my auto spell check thingie here on BYC somehow got turned off. I don't know what magic combination of buttons I hit, but I haven't hit them them again.

I do not rely on it to catch my mistakes, and I even find the wiggly red underline to be annoying at times. But I would like to have it back...

Sometimes I have a senior moment and can't remember how to spell.

 

[Sally PB]

Cell phone texts contribute to the problem with many completely ignoring any form of punctuation or capitals anywhere other than the first letter of a sentence.

I get the speed factor, and texts used to be limited to only 140 (?) characters. There is a time and place for speed, and a time and place for accuracy.

 

[R2elk]

I get the speed factor, and texts used to be limited to only 140 (?) characters. There is a time and place for speed, and a time and place for accuracy.

At my age, there's no hurry about anything.