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Smart TalkSMART TALK by Dr. Tilde Cedilla
APPLE'S: Does some of this country's problem with immigration come from shame? Many immigrants speak better English than native citizens. English is my third language, but even I know that you make a plural by adding S or ES, and that this operation never needs an apostrophe.
Recently, on a day off, I left the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired and went into Underbelly to buy some apples. Northern states are shipping wonderful fruit to us here in Texas.
Very soon, I found myself being yelled at by a produce manager who actually thought he was in the right. All I had done was cross out the apostrophe on his sign saying APPLE'S. He had the nerve to accuse me of defacing the sign.
On the way home, without apples, I passed a house with a lawn sign saying The Smith's.
We have so much work to do.
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