<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Example of proper usage...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1168702253-1167481579703.png">http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1168702253-1167481579703.png</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 24, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Katie L. Vale wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> I will quote here Professor Perelman from the MIT Writing Program:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>"People at MIT seem to think the apostrophe means 'Look out! An S is coming next!' "</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 24, 2007, at 5:02 PM, Scott R Campbell wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Oh please let me chime in too. I agree, I agree, I agree. It drives me up the wall when people talk about their learnings. Learning, maybe. Learnings, no. Findings, yes. And never never never apostrophe. You're dealing with a bunch of illiterates over there, Lois! Fight back!<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯</DIV><DIV>Scott Campbell</DIV><DIV>Director of Communications<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV>MIT School of Architecture + Planning</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 24, 2007, at 4:22 PM, William T G Litant wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>1. Learnings is not possessive</DIV> <DIV>2. Learnings is not a contraction</DIV> <DIV>3. Learnings is not a word</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Bill Litant</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Editors mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Editors@mit.edu">Editors@mit.edu</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>