[lbo-talk] Hitchens' Anti-Imperialism

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Sep 14 17:51:51 PDT 2003


Brad wrote:


>Max didn't say "Christopher Hitchens' anti-imperialism." He said
>"Hitchens' anti-imperialism."
>
>Max is a clever dog...

But punctuationally challenged. The apostrophe *after* the s in Hitchens is correct only if the s denotes a plural--that is, it would properly refer to *both* brothers if only their surname was Hitchen. To refer to both Hitchens brothers it would have to be *Hitchenses'*, and to one of them it should be Hitchenses, sans apostrophe.

Editoriopedantically,

Shane Mage



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