Re: Worker's or Workers Comp?
- From: Margie <nomoremargiesjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:11:16 GMT
My piano teacher uses "pneumonic" as well. I don't have the heart to
correct him, although when he used the word "hemiola," and defined it
for me (I forget exactly what it means), I mentioned that "hemi" was a
prefix that meant "half." He hadn't ever thought of it and was quite
impressed. He does music, I do words. LOL. But I do believe there
is some connection between language ability and musical ability.
Anybody else think so?
Margie
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:54:08 -0400, "Sandi" <sanditypes@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
If I didn't have to save the textbooks in case I want my money back, I'd
send her the bar exam study book that suggests using a "pneumonic" to
remember a list of crimes. <insert massive eyeroll here>
Sandi
"Margie" <nomoremargiesjunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ch8ab29bd4knt0hahnjuea15gb87p52pmq@xxxxxxxxxx
I use workers' too. Not capitalized unless it's specifically the
Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
My 13-year-old niece called me last week to describe an assignment for
her upcoming 9th-grade honors English class. They are to identify
spelling, grammar and "punctuational" (her word) errors, document them
in photos or by clipping articles, and write a paper on what's wrong
and what should be corrected. She wanted to know how to spell
"through," as in "Monday through Friday." She saw an ad on TV that
said "thru." I told her that even though "thru" is very common, it is
not a correct spelling. So here's what she did to document it: She
TiVo'd the commercial, rewound it, freeze-framed it, took a picture of
the TV screen with her digital camera, transferred the photo to her
computer, and printed it. Phew! (Side story: Her father told her
that "thru" was acceptable. Her mother -- my sister, his ex-wife --
said, "Your father doesn't know how to spell his middle name!
Margie's the expert. If she tells you something, she's right!") LOL.
Anyway, she wanted to know if I knew of any other such mistakes. I
sighed deeply and tried to explain to her that such things are the
bane of my very existence, that I can't *help* but see them, that they
drive me crazy, but that I couldn't think of any at that moment. LOL.
She said, "Can't I just search for them on line?" I said, "Yes, you
probably could, but I don't think that's what your teacher has in
mind. Do you get a newspaper?" No. I told her I'd keep my eyes
open.
A few days later, I was having lunch with a friend and spotted a
framed poster of New York City with the words "Lets Eat Now." I took
a photo with my cell phone and text-messaged it to her with the
subject line: "Punctuation error?" I was hoping she'd spot it and
didn't want to give it away too easily. She texted me back the
following: "Yes, there should be an apostriphy." Aaargh! One step
forward, two steps back, eh?
I did tell her I was happy she was learning this stuff (her spelling
has always been bad, as has that of many of her teachers over the
years, btw). And I said I couldn't believe they waited until 9th
grade to emphasize spelling, grammar and punctuation. Better late
than never, I guess. The good news is that she has chosen Latin for
her language in high school, and I told her she'd be learning a lot of
this stuff. She's a straight A student, btw. Makes you worry about
how the lesser students are doing!
Margie
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:07:51 -0400, Phyllis Nilsson
<phyllisnilsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is Workers' because there is more than one worker receiving it. It
doesn't have to be all, just more than one.
Christie wrote:
It seems that the full moon has brought out both my blonde-ness and my
100%
Polish heritage. ;-)
Why isn't it "Worker's" compensation? You aren't compensating all of
them,
just ones that are injured. What makes it even more confusing to me is
that
it used to be "Workmans Compensation." Shouldn't that be -men if they
really meant it to be plural?
The website http://www.workerscompensation.com/ doesn't help me - they
use
Workers, Workers' and Worker's.
Unfortunately, I've overthought this and made quite a convincing case
for
both with and without the apostrophe - can somebody clear this up? It
seems I wonder about this every 6 years or so but this time it's really
making me crazy.
-Christie
(Rest assured that once somebody posts an answer, I'm going to slap my
forehead and be embarrassed that this is forever on the internet
attached
to my name, but at least I won't lose sleep pondering this!)
.
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