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[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Wait a sec, I was told American's don't use the metric system...

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We also don't use apostrophes for plural words.

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago

The apostrophe abbreviates the es (to 's) that used to be part of the English possessive (as it still is on some words that end s)

It's a bit shit. Lots of people have trouble with it, lots of English as a second language people have trouble with not understanding what is replaced by the apostrophe

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