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Chris -- 2018-04-11
A Google searched turned up 588 incidents of this mangling of this German word, so it seems to be very common. For example, http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl … _with.html
Last edited by PositivePete (2006-08-31 07:10:44)
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Maybe I am not supposed to post here. I do not know the rules. I am new. Forgive me.
BUT! Ten years ago, my neighbors in rural western Michigan told me that their grandpa had Oldtimers Disease. I guess it is a matter for high-level scholarly debate whether OLDTIMERS should have an apostrophe, and just exactly where the apostrophe should go.
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This is already in the Database, though I’m not entirely convinced it should be. There was a fairly recent discussion of it elsewhere on the Forum: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=657
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