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 Hey, folks.  Sometimes there's a little, niggling thing that drives us
batty.  One that does that to me is the use of an apostrophe for a plural.
Plurals don't have apostrophes.  Here's today's example (Note that
"today's" is NOT a plural):

   As I prepared dinner, Lisa wandered around looking at the photo's I had
up on the walls...

   The plural of "photo" is "photos." The word "photo's" implies that the
photo "owns" something.  It's POSSESIVE and, to my knowledge, photos don't
own anything.

   I suppose you could say something like, "The photo's brightness was
startling." That's possessive, not plural.  One photo.

   So....  for me and everyone else who cringes at apostrophes being used
for plurals...  clean it up before publishing it.  Stuff like this just
ruins the mood in an otherwise great story.

   Thanx,

   Cyberguy