[bksvol-discuss] Re: Duke: the life and image of John Wayne

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:47:27 -0500

That's what's there "Bros.' " minus the quotes of course.  I didn't write the 
book, just checked it.  <grin>

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cindy Rosenthal 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 5:23 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Duke: the life and image of John Wayne


  Gary, 

  What comes after the Bros.' ? If nothing, then it
  shouldn't be there, but apparently that a fault in the
  book and we cannot correct it. I hate it when we
  validate books that clearly haven't been edited.

  Cindy Ro

  --- Gary Petraccaro <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

  > It's a posessive which ends in an s.  It's also an
  > abbreviation ending in a period.  The apostrophe
  > comes after the period.
  > It could have been written Brothers's, or Bros.'s,
  > but that trailing s is more and more being left off.
  > I have checked against the print copy and "say" and
  > "Bros.'" are both what's on the page.
  > You will find other oddities.  <grin>
  > 
  > 
  >   ----- Original Message ----- 
  >   From: gail johnson 
  >   To: mama-gail@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
  >   Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 2:00 AM
  >   Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Duke: the life and
  > image of John Wayne
  > 
  > 
  >   page 173
  > 
  >   Is the ' (apostrophe) correct?
  >   my Production Department say that you want that
  > other camera," he wrote 
  >   Steve Trilling, Warner Bros.'
  > 
  >   Thanks.
  > 
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