Date:  Mon, 16 May 1994 18:09:06 -0500

From:  Dennis Baron <baron[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU>

Subject: Re: genitive in names of businesses



May's is alive and well, at least in Urbana -- and Champaign, so far as

I know, but all this talk has had a dizzying effect on my own usage

and I am now going to go to K-Mart's to pick up the pictures from

my son's birthday party.



Dennis

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