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from Kay contains these words:

Interesting how the use of the apostrophe seems to be completely
reversing in this age - once it was used for possessives but not
plurals, now it appears to be the other way around.

Actually, originally it *WAS* used for plurals, when exotic stuff began
to be imported, and it helped to indicate how a word was to be
pronounced - as in bananas - it signified it should rhyme with pyjamas
and not Barabbas.

Only later (when Barabbas and pyjamas became established) did it settle
into its present application of indicating missing letters. (As in Book,
its pages:- Book's pages; Arthur, his cow:- Arthur's cow; Kay, her
post:- er - Kay'r post? - - well, you can't have everything in this land
fit for he-men...)

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