question for grammar grinches

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But do any of you remember Andy Divine's TV show for kids?

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I don't remember him having a children's show, but I do remember him as Wild Bill Hickok's sidekick Jingles. "Hey Bill, wait for me!"

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Originally Posted by five one

I don't remember him having a children's show, but I do remember him as Wild Bill Hickok's sidekick Jingles. "Hey Bill, wait for me!"

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Right--same guy!

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Originally Posted by KnottedYet

I kinda run by the rule that you put an "e" after "o" for plurals (like in tomatoes and potatoes) but "does" means lots of female deers or the singular 3rd person verb-form of "do." So you dump the "e" and put in an apostrophe to hold its place.

Of course, if English were a purely phonetic written language, all this would be moot.

Have you ever notice how much "apostrophe" resembles "catastrophe"? And it often is...

:D

Knot-the-warped-literature-major-child-of-a-long-line-of-librarians

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I am always wondering about numbers. When we say we are taking the Grade 3's I always put an apostrophe but someone told that is wrong. 3s just looks stupid.

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Originally Posted by kelownagirl

I am always wondering about numbers. When we say we are taking the Grade 3's I always put an apostrophe but someone told that is wrong. 3s just looks stupid.

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If you follow the rule that all numbers below 10, when written officially, should be spelled out, then it would be Grade threes. Or you could say, children in the grade three class. :p

~T~

As an English teacher, it kills me to see people put apostrophes when it is just a plural, not a contraction or posessive. I think some of us think that every time a word ends in an "s" that it needs an apostrophe....
The dos and don'ts are tricky, because that is sort of a slang expression, so what Denise read from the dictionary is the advice i would give students who were using it in a writing piece. And yes, numbers below ten should be spelled out.

Ha, I clearly remember Miss Francis. I think I must have been about three. And Romper Room. The "teacher" who was on the show in the Boston area was named Miss Jeanne. And for those of you MA people, anyone for Rex Trailer and a trip to Boomtown? I remember when I first moved back here in 1990, we were driving in Waltham and saw Rex Trailer's production company on a storefront, with his name on it. I got very excited, but my husband could not understand what the big deal was about a kid's TV show. I was addicted to that show until I was about nine.

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Originally Posted by Bad JuJu

If you're asking because of a work issue, be aware that many companies that deal in writing have official style manuals, where these questions might be answered. Or then again, they might not.

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If you're publishing in a journal, the journal will have it's own style guidelines to remove the ambiguities of the English language. For example, temperatures reported in Kelvin should not contain the degree symbol, and there should be a space between the number and the "K", as in "298 K".

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Originally Posted by KnottedYet

Was she the one with the magic mirror that could see you? And she'd be lookin' through the dammm thing (no glass), saying kids' names?

That sumbich freaked me right out!

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She just bored me silly. Never could deal with sickly-sweet women, even as a tot. I did like Mr. Green Jeans on Captain Kangaroo. And I loved "Diver Dan", the guy in the hard-hat diving suit. It was probably filmed in a 10 gallon aquarium with little action figures, but at least there was action.

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Originally Posted by Bad JuJu

But do any of you remember Andy Divine's TV show for kids? I don't remember the title of it, but I remember he had a magic frog character, called, appropriately, Froggy. And Andy would say, "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!" and flash-bang, Froggy would appear. What's not to love about that?

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"Hiya Kids! Hiya hiya!!"
YES!!! I used to LOVE "Andy's Gang"!! There was Midnight the cat tied and bound up to his violin, right? We actually got a rubber version of Froggy for the bathtub.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/andys-gang.htm

http://www.tvparty.com/lostandy.html