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But none of the dailies explain how these internal documents came to be possessed by the government nor wonder about the propriety of that.
Fowler noted the problem favoring s 's but made no specific reference to the conversion of proper possessive nouns to adjectives; Strunk and White affirmed the propriety of s's , and Gowers, in The Complete Plain Words , prefers s's , a choice of some importance because his father, the British neurologist Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915), is remembered for his column, disease, fasciculus, sign, solution, syndrome, and tract by Dorland.
I somehow imagined that it was a blend of dunk (a popular debate at the time concerned the propriety of dunking donuts in public) and Yiddish gedenk, the intimate singular imperative of gedenkn `to remember.
This description recognizes that as yet unalienated land might have been used as wild pasture, just as an 1867 critic of bureaucratese can complain that the Crown lands are very frequently, in Government phrase, styled the waste lands of the Crown... [though] they cannot... with propriety be called waste lands, for they are applied to the only purpose, speaking of them in general, to which they can ever be applied--grazing.
Though it may be additionally unpenworthy, there is another "point" that heavily impels making . It is that of all the volumes, some eminent, some too much esteemed in the trail of "fashion," there is one included that so transgresses the hesitational boundary of propriety as to induce a feeling of stammering dyspepsia.
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