Re: Missing Child : Tsunami

Pellucid wrote:
"Alfred Packer" <AlfredPacker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Pellucid" <mush@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"I am not interested in what happens in this Country, I am only
interested
in what happens elsewhere" ( so that I am insulated from reality, and
can
exercise my fantasy's)
That should be "fantasies"

HTH

Al

WRONG! -but nevermind......



Eh? Never mind? Al is right. Unless you want to go all Byronic and 18th Century on us and use the word "phantasy":

From: "Poems to Caroline: 'Remind Me Not, Remind Me Not.' (George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1788-1824.)

"..I dreamt last night our love return'd,
And, sooth to say, that very dream
Was sweeter in its phantasy,
Than if for other hearts I burn'd,
For eyes that ne'er like thine could beam
In Rapture's wild reality."

Or:

From the same poet, in " Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"

Canto the Fourth, Stanza CLII (152)

"..Turn to the mole which Hadrian rear'd on high,
Imperial mimic of old Egypt's piles,
Colossal copyist of deformity
Whose travell'd phantasy from the far Nile's
Enormous model, doom'd the artist's toils
To build for giants, and for his vain earth,
His shrunken ashes, raise this dome: How smiles
The gazer's eyes with philosophic mirth,
To view the huge design which sprung from such a birth!"

That's real 'A' level stuff, though.

But forming plurals is Key Stage II spelling and the daily diet of every 7 to 11 year old in the land. If a word ends in a consonant and a 'y', you change the 'y' to 'ies' to make it plural. If a word ends in a vowel and a 'y', you just add 's'. Donkey-donkeys. Fantasy-fantasies. No apostrophes are involved unless it's as a contraction or to attribute possession.


http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_3/yplurals.htm

Jp

(Pro Bono)
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