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2017 Fictional Primate Deathmatch

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Nicholls595 Feb 2017 11:03am, 22 Feb 2017 10,765 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 mass nuns? we're back to Bishop Brennan I see. Has there ever been a sitcom character deathmatch? Father Dougal vs Manuel
GregP Feb 2017 11:27am, 22 Feb 2017 90,253 posts	Quote Pin GregP Hold on. Is the Opinionated Polymath advocating use to "Oh For Goodness's Sake" too? #buffoon
GlennR Feb 2017 11:54am, 22 Feb 2017 25,232 posts	Quote Pin GlennR Do you really want to mess with me and Badger? For goodness sake is an idiom, spoken not generally written. If you believe it is in the possessive then yes, it should be goodness's. The difference between it and the previous example is that 'for the sake of completeness' is something that might be written down. If you're going to consist of making it 'for completeness's sake' then that's the way it has to be. However, it's clumsy in the mouth so don't bother. There are no exceptions to the 's rule for singular possessives, apart from some very obscure custom and practice stuff to do with the names of saints and those rare examples of archaic genitive forms that linger in the language, such as its, his and her.
GlennR Feb 2017 11:54am, 22 Feb 2017 25,233 posts	Quote Pin GlennR insist on rather than consist of...
GregP Feb 2017 12:15pm, 22 Feb 2017 90,264 posts	Quote Pin GregP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rYL2zG_OY
McGoohan Feb 2017 12:25pm, 22 Feb 2017 28,107 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan A watery bint:
GlennR Feb 2017 12:25pm, 22 Feb 2017 25,234 posts	Quote Pin GlennR I see they've got you in to write our lunchtime restaurant menu: curry goat's and rice.
Badger Feb 2017 12:30pm, 22 Feb 2017 8,136 posts	Quote Pin Badger Is she in the act of lobbing a scimitar?
GregP Feb 2017 12:32pm, 22 Feb 2017 90,266 posts	Quote Pin GregP They used to be made up the road in Sible Headingham I seem to recall?
GlennR Feb 2017 12:46pm, 22 Feb 2017 25,236 posts	Quote Pin GlennR Scimitars? Or the cars of the same name?