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Old 09-20-2011, 05:49 AM   #92
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Originally Posted by lindsayw View Post
The Greengrocer's Apostrophe is not just a Brit thing! But add contractions to it and you see (in Australia) Avo's 3/$1 - Yuck! That's avocados, btw. Or should I say "it's avocado's"?
Surely, in that case, the apostrophe is merely indicating that some letters are omitted, and is not indicating a possessive.

So Avo's is correct, but Avocado's is not.
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