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10/13 for me.

13 of 13, PERFECT SCORE....

In you're face

Lord Jim wrote: In you're face

(But would not a perfect score be 20?)

I grant myself perfection on this test on the secure ground that I learned my grammar in the 19th century when Jesus' was "correct". Ancient and biblical names did not at that time receive the 's which these days renders such abominations as Jesus's or Zeus's. Although the twentieth century Chicago grammarians suggest the modern usage only, the 'archaic' form is both more generally used and is widely accepted amongst grammarians. To insist upon the new Americanism is gauche. In consequence, one leg is removed from LJ's total.



Picketseses's men cheer Meades's victory while LJs gobsmacked

Meade

They claim I got two wrong, but they are incorrect. . In the one case, the spelling of the man's name would tell you that an apostrophe could not possibly go where they put it. nd in the other case, wherther to add the s or just an apostrophe is not a ahard and fast rule, and it depends as much on eup no hard and fast rule, and depends as much on euphony as on grammar, but that aside, books on usage (see Fowler, for example) identify that name specifically as one that doesn't follow what has become the more accepted usage.

So sorry Jim, you go

They claim I got two wrong, but they are incorrect. . In the one case, the spelling of the man's name would tell you that an apostrophe could not possibly go where they put it. And in the other case, wherther to add the s or just an apostrophe is not a ahard and fast rule, and it depends as much on eup no hard and fast rule, and depends as much on euphony as on grammar, but that aside, books on usage (see Fowler, for example) identify that name specifically as one that doesn't follow what has become the more accepted usage.

So sorry Jim, you got 11 out of 13, and I got the perfect score

They say I got one wrong, but their wrong, there wrong, they're wrong! It's the same one Meade discussed, and one of the two Scooter mentioned (but I think he might be wrong on the other one).

IOW, perfect score for me!