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Game Thread Game Two: #1 Ohio State 24, #2 Texas 7 (9/9/06)

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Dryden said:
Texas is derivitive of "tejas," which means "friends," therefore, Texas is already plural. :tongue2:
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Aided by the emoticon, I realize you were joking, but even if what you said was true, it wouldn't matter. Illinois is French, but the possessive of Illinois is Illinois's, for example.
EngineerHorn said:
But it's still pronounced as if there's just the one 's', right? Or has everyone down here been pronouncing it wrong (as the case may be, f the queen's english).
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No, to be technically correct, both esses should be pronounced.
H_L said:
right or wrong , Texas', is what is commonly used
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As is the case with Illinois'. In both cases, an ending apostrophe is widely used, and both cases are widely wrong.
 
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What if it's a plural word, but it refers to a singular entity?

As in, "EH was continuously talking about punctuation on a football thread, so the board collective e-kicked him in the junk, resulting in a scream that could be heard from the [Rockies'/Rockies's] highest peak.
 
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Let's get this thread back on topic. I predict that Troy Smith will put up 875 yards (200 rushing, 675 passing) on Texas's's's's defense, despite some weird, obscure rule allowing Texas to put in 2 extra defenders in the second half, since they're losing by 150+ points at halftime. Then, in the third quarter, after every single one of the Texas fans have gone home, Texas will score their first (and only) touchdown, as Ohio State only has three players on the field (Michael Wiley being two of them). The extra point, of course, will be blocked by none other than Brutus Buckeye (playing in his first game because of another obscure rule which states that once the visiting team is up by 250+ points, they must play their cheerleaders instead of people who have actually been practicing with the team).
 
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EngineerHorn said:
What if it's a plural word, but it refers to a singular entity?
As in, "EH was continuously talking about punctuation on a football thread, so the board collective e-kicked him in the junk, resulting in a scream that could be heard from the [Rockies'/Rockies's] highest peak.
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First, anyone who would take a football thread on such a tangent deserves that fate. Second, it's simply a plural word, so it goes by the rules of any plural word: Rockies'.
Zurp said:
Michael Wiley being two of them
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In that case, it would be Wileys'
 
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zincfinger said:
First, anyone who would take a football thread on such a tangent deserves that fate. Second, it's simply a plural word, so it goes by the rules of any plural word: Rockies'.
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In that case, it would be Wileys'
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OK, but what if, say, Rickey Henderson were talking about Rickey? What's the correct syntax for showing possession when speaking of yourself in the third-person using two different tenses?
 
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Dryden said:
OK, but what if, say, Rickey Henderson were talking about Rickey? What's the correct syntax for showing possession when speaking of yourself in the third-person using two different tenses?
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In that case, you're obligated to incorrectly use the reflexive pronoun, as in "the team showed great confidence in myself, and that gets Rickey's appreciation."

And obviously, bonus points would be accrued for a Tysonesque misuse of vocabulary.
 
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