<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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 type="cite" cite=""><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""> <HR size="2"></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Tahoma" size="-1"><B>From:</B> editors-bounces@MIT.EDU [<A href="mailto:editors-bounces@MIT.EDU">mailto:editors-bounces@MIT.EDU</A>]<B> On Behalf Of</B> Lois Slavin<BR> <B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:30 PM<BR> <B>To:</B> MIT Editors<BR> <B>Subject:</B> [Editors] Grammatical question</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">Is the following use of "learnings" correct?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">"....shared their learnings with other companies......."</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">I have a colleague who says it should be "learning's". He was an English major in college, not an engineer, so I thought I'd better check with this group!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">Thanks.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">Lois</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">Lois Slavin</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">Communications Director</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><FONT size="-1">MIT Engineering Systems Division</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite" cite=""><BR> _______________________________________________<BR> Editors mailing list<BR> <A href="mailto:Editors@mit.edu">Editors@mit.edu</A><BR> <A href="http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors">http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/editors</A></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
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