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Calling all pedants, I need your help urgently

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gingerninja · 06/03/2008 09:13

If I'm writing in a presentation....

Company Name Mangers Meeting

and it's refering to a collective of managers should it read

Company Name Managers' meeting? or should the asotrophe be left out? It doesn't seem to look right with.

Thanks in anticipation of your superior knowledge.

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ProfessorGrammaticus · 06/03/2008 09:14

You mean you have a group of Comapny Name Managers? If so, the apostrophe is right - leave it in

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pruners · 06/03/2008 09:15

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Novicecamper · 06/03/2008 09:15

Managers' if I understand you correctly! It's a meeting for lots of managers, right?

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littlelapin · 06/03/2008 09:15

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Novicecamper · 06/03/2008 09:16

In fact, if you look at the title of this board it's the same principle - pedants' corner!!!

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gingerninja · 06/03/2008 09:16

yes, this is a meeting of a number of company managers so it should read managers'? I thought that was the rule, it just didn't look right on screen.

thanks

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gingerninja · 06/03/2008 09:18

Ah, Novice just realised that. Duh

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titchy · 06/03/2008 10:08

But make sure you write ManAgers not Mangers....

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gingerninja · 06/03/2008 10:11
Grin
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flowerybeanbag · 06/03/2008 10:11
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IorekByrnison · 06/03/2008 10:51

It's a bit of a mouthful though. Couldn't you say Meeting of Company Name Managers?

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gingerninja · 06/03/2008 16:03

That would probably have been the best solution Iroek, however, it's a meeting chaired by managers who present to non managers iyswim which I feel has a different meaning. Anyway, tis done now and it was someone elses project anyway so they're the ones looking or about the outcome.

Thanks again all

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