OT:Favor needed

[Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services]

> | 	Gee, you and JP could probably get to be best bud's... <g>
> 
> Uh, why do you have an apostrophe in that remark?
> 
> --
> JP

	I was contracting the word "buddies".  (I'm not absolutely certain
this is a correct use for an apostrophe, now that you mention it.)  For
example, from:

http://www.americanjourney.net/archer/usage.html  

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3) Without exception, an apostrophe shows that a CONTRACTION is taking
place:

isn't      it's     won't    can't    don't
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(The emphasis on the word contraction is theirs, not mine...)

Mike