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Marsilius
June 14th, 2013, 20:19
(Timmberty, you should choose user names that do not have "tim" or "bert" in them, it's so obvious! Wait, spelling, grammar and punctuation are standard English, I take that back.)

Sadly, that is not the case. The OP has used the dreaded so-called "greengrocer's apostrophe" by writing "sauna's" rather than the correct plural form "saunas" in bullet point 7.
MiniMee
June 15th, 2013, 00:44
Sadly, that is not the case. The OP has used the dreaded so-called "greengrocer's apostrophe"

Even more sadly, I suspect that due to proliferation in use, that should be the "greengrocers' apostrophe".
Marsilius
June 15th, 2013, 03:50
No, the singular form is more commonly used to describe a single use - see http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=tablet ... 68&bih=928 (http://www.google.co.uk/#sclient=tablet-gws&q=greengrocer's+apostrophe&oq=greengrocers+a&gs_l=tablet-gws.1.2.0l2j0i10.1465.6927.0.9367.14.12.0.2.2.0.11 5.938.11j1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.17.tablet-gws-psy.7DNZ6hMlAjU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.47883778,d.d2k&fp=8b851a36744e568a&biw=768&bih=928)
bert160
June 15th, 2013, 17:18
My god...spare me the grammatical rules, just want to get information about sauna habits!