Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Exactly. I omitted it to show that it had been omitted.

It matters because a theatre is supposed to offer the citizenry a glimpse of their cultural history, including their grammar and language history.

The dogs bark = the dogs have a habit of making a noise.
The dog’s bark = this one dog makes its own particular noise.
The dogs’ bark = several dogs are making a sound particular to them.

 

I have some spare ones if anybody wants them, feel free to use them as I've always struggled with bloody commas and all the other rights and wrongs.

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Each to their own speciality I say.

 

Victor Borge to the rescue.

 

If the name was meant to mean the theatre of the citizens then it would be correct to have an apostrophe after "citizens ". However, if the intention was just to have a theatre named "Citizens" then that's fine.

We have a shopping centre in Birmingham named "The Pallisades". Nobody is going to argue that The Pallisades own it; it is simply a name.

 

I disagree. The Citizens’ Theatre is clearly a theatre for the citizens and, as such, needs an apostrophe. If it was the Brooks Theatre, that would be OK with or without, as it is just a word that happens to end in S, but need not be a possessive.

 

50 years ago my English teacher would have given me a detention for cheek if I'd tried that on him.

 

If your council is anything like mine then they could probably find a use for them.

 

I love my mother tongue. Yes, a grunt can indicate that my dearly beloved considers his tea cup to be sufficiently filled with fresh tea, but a “thank you” sounds so much nicer, don’t you think?