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Re: Grebe at Falls Lake
- To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Grebe at Falls Lake
- From: agkistrodon@mindspring.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:10:16 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
>> (or is it Clark'ses... or Clark'ss?)
>
>It's Clark's Grebe, I believe. As in Lewis and Clark.
I know that. What about the plural? I was trying to be a comically
pedantic jerk. It's Clark's grebes, of course, and you can't grammatically
shorten it to Clark'ses without my old English teacher getting in your face
about it.
Jim Sutton