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This isn't a rule, its just something worth knowing if you speak or write english (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Catastrophe's*

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's a joke, because that's the way people make mistakes with apostrophes all the time.

The correct spelling is indeed "catastrophes", but a lot of people would spell it "catastrophe's" (which technically means "the [...] of catastrophe").

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Why did catasthropie hoard all our apostrophies?