You know the gentleman who's picture you treated to me this morning.

Oh yes, that gentleman.

Yes.

He blocked me on Twitter about six months ago for pointing out that there's no

apostrophe in Dexy's midnight runners and as my wife said this is

what you want that person.

Oh yeah.

What you want that gentleman to do to react quite so.

That's what he goes.

Neither in Dexies nor indeed in Finnegan's

as you've discovered to your customer.

Yeah, thanks.

No apostrophe in Howard's index is midnight runners or finnegan's way.

Does that mean they're not belonging to those particular people?

Correct, they're just names, they are separate clauses.

There's that thing in an Stephen Pinker book about the Toronto Maple Leaves.

It's a brilliant explanation of why they're not called the Toronto Maple Leaves.

Because they're named after the Maple Leaf, so they're the Toronto Maple Leaf's.

And the possessive is the Toronto Maple Leifs apostrophe and so on and so forth.

That's not just because they were named by a bunch of French people who didn't care.

It's because they're a football team and they can't read.

It's actually spelled MALP. There's now no apostrophe in water stones either which still causes me deep pain every time I see that it...

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