Timeline for Is it "consumer savings" or "consumers’ savings"?
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| Apr 3, 2011 at 17:41 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Nothing at all! That's I italicised you! My apologies if it came across as a 'back-handed' compliment. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 16:41 | comment | added | Robusto | @Fumblefingers: What part of "Agreed" made you think I was looking for a sparring match? | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 16:36 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Well I'm certainly not going to get in a sparring match with you over what constitutes a valid utterance! I'm just indicating my preference for the uninflected form in the vast majority of contexts. A preference which I think you share, but didn't particularly call attention to in your answer. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 15:36 | comment | added | Robusto | @FumbleFingers: Agreed. Still, it is possible to construct a legitimate English sentence using the apostrophe, so I opted to include it. | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 15:32 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | You can say either, because they sound much the same anyway. But I personally don't think I've ever seen the apostrophe'd form. And even though it's grammatically defensible, I think I'd just classify it as a grocers' apostrophe (I don't have any preference between grocers' and grocer's though!) | |
| Apr 3, 2011 at 14:58 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
| Apr 3, 2011 at 14:48 | history | answered | Robusto | CC BY-SA 2.5 |