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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Quick question on the use of the word "misuse"

Is a missing apostrophe technically a "misuse" of an apostrophe, or is it just forgetting it?
  

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Well, if it wasn't used at all, it can't have been "misused", technically . But if you loosen the standards of definition a bit, you could probably call the mistaken omission of an apostrophe a misuse. CJ

— CalifJim

  • Well, if it wasn't used at all, it can't have been "misused", technically .
  • But if you loosen the standards of definition a bit, you could probably call the mistaken omission of an apostrophe a misuse.
  • CJ
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Well, if it wasn't used at all, it can't have been "misused", technically. But if you loosen the standards of definition a bit, you could probably call the mistaken omission of an apostrophe a misuse.

CJ
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