Moving Day, Eh? [OT]

No, not me: just everybody in Montreal, apparently. So I attach this article for your entertainment.

When I was in Montreal a few years ago (staying in residential neighborhood), one of my first thoughts was “How do these people get large items such as refrigerators in and out of their homes with no elevators or even internal non-spiral stairways?”

The answer apparently is “With a lot of difficulty.”

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Apostrophe’s I Don’t Understand [OT]

When did this trend of pluralizing words by adding a gratuitous apostrophe before the s begin? I don’t remember seeing this before a few years ago, and now it’s all over the place. Certainly nobody ever learned this in school.

English is a very tough language to learn. Just about THE ONLY THING THAT’S EASY is being able to pluralize most words by adding an s.