Author: Lisi Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] How should the Open Source world handle new
vulnerabilities?
On Monday 28 September 2009 10:46:34 Chris Aitken wrote: > > > serious security vulnerabilities. The impact on users, business's, code
> >
> > On a lighter educational note, I've used the possessive apostrophe for
> > business, businesses is the correct plural. Like many of us I tend to
> > hammer
> > out words in a creative frame of mind then go back with a critical
> > analytical
> > view, usually after a good night's [1] sleep.
> >
> > [1] This is a possessive apostrophe, the sleep is owned by the night.
>
> businesses' surely?
No - businesses' is again the possessive, just the plural possessive. The
plural is, as Damian says, businesses; nothing, in Damian's sentence, is said
to belong to the businesses on which there is an impact. (The sentence -
that particular sentence - belongs to Damian. So Damian's.)
