Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:01:11PM +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of
> Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the
> "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the state's name must be written
> «Arkansas's» and not «Arkansas'». (I'm using French quotes to
> emphasize the difference with the apostrophe).

Thanks for the reminder. Unfortunately I don't write that many on
Arkansawistic matters, but I will keep this in archive for possible
writings in future.

As there are a lot of software forks being made, probably a vimrc
release will be provided soon that resolves this AAA-matter in a more
profound way.

Cincerely,

//meine

>
> Reference: Arkansas Apostrophe Act, mentioned in ABC News [USA] on 6
> March 2007, see item 38 under
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#References
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
>
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