English punctuation rule?

[betty swollocks]

A colleague said that you do not use possessive apostrophes when the letters are in upper case.
Tony's bike.
TONYS BIKE.

I've never heard of this. Is she correct?

 

[Pete]

Is your colleague ...(better put that in the plural) ... are your colleague's greengrocer's, by any chance?

 

[alecstilleyedye]

the band formerly known as the b-52's are now the b-52s. only taken them the thick end of 30 years to notice that it was wrong

 

[betty swollocks]

Yerrss, thanks for that.
I thought she was talking bollocks.
I politely informed her at the time that I considered that she was mistaken.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Yerrss, thanks for that.
I thought she was talking bollocks.
I politely informed her at the time that I considered that she was mistaken.

You mean bollock's, swollock's.

 

[Carwash]

Perhaps your friend was confusing the apostrophe with the acute accent in French? As I understand it, accents are optional in all-caps French.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I've never heard of this. Is she correct?

Is she ar'seholes.

 

[Maz]

Is your colleague ...(better put that in the plural) ... are your colleague's greengrocer's, by any chance?

Are your colleague's greengrocer's what?
You didn't finish the sentence.

 

[Landslide]

 

[Yorkshireman]

Many, many years ago I worked part-time as a grocerers delivery boy complete with bike with small front wheel and large basket above, three speed Sturmey Archer on the back and a sign hanging from the crossbar .

 

[Over The Hill]

Slightly off track but...
Here in Basingstoke they have an Ice Hockey team that for about ten years was called the Basinstoke Bisons. Finally they realised the plural of Bison was still Bison so took the s off the end.

Americans seem to be to blame for taking all the ''' out of names. Especially film titles. Schindler's List got through but they seem to want to tidy up most titles.

 

[cisamcgu]

*shakes his head*
You are all so wrong... if you use capital letters, then, obviously, you have to use the capital "'" .. it is completely different than the lower case "'"



Andrew

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Many, many years ago I worked part-time as a grocerers delivery boy complete with bike with small front wheel and large basket above, three speed Sturmey Archer on the back and a sign hanging from the crossbar .

how many grocerers? one and it's grocerer’s, two or more and it’s grocerers’

(and it is not just grocer?)

 

[Arch]

If it's someone selling groceries, couldn't it be a groceryerer? You can say fruiterer for example...