OT:Favor needed

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Mike Schwartz-PC Support & Services propounded (on Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 04:50:13PM -0600):
| > | 	Gee, you and JP could probably get to be best bud's... <g>
| > 
| > Uh, why do you have an apostrophe in that remark?
| 
| 	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  
| 
| [snip]-----------------
| 3) Without exception, an apostrophe shows that a CONTRACTION is taking
| place:
| 
| isn't      it's     won't    can't    don't
| -----------------------
| 
| (The emphasis on the word contraction is theirs, not mine...)

But "bud's"  does not look to me like like a contraction. 
It looks like a possessive, and I think you meant a plural.
English plurals don't (a contraction) use apostrophes.
:-)

-- 
JP