Pete C

There's a coffee roaster called Has Beans. Noah Webster.

One of my favorite contemporary fiction writers. I think I've read about 3/4 of his books. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/books/barry-unsworth-historical-novelist-dies-at-81.html

As far as I know this is a first. http://jazztimes.com/articles/27324-sista-s-place-a-jazz-cultural-beachhead-in-brooklyn-part-one

Well, that's better than "her majesty's a pretty nice girl but she doesn't have a lot to say."

No, the apostrophe would only be acceptable for an abbreviation or acronym in all caps where the lack might cause confusion. Pickins should never be Pickin's unless it's a possessive for Mr. Pickin. Getting matters of orthographic style right is hit or miss in any country in my experience.

Would you say that American English is a big error? No comments from our U.K. friends, please.

One rumor is that Coltrane was nodding out, Monk called his name, and he sprung to consciousness and played a great solo, but I've also seen this account questioned.

The Three Degrees The Three Suns Al Nevins http://petercherches.blogspot.com/2006/12/have-ding-dong-dandy-christmas.html

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H. Rider Haggard Merle Haggard Jack Oakie

"Power pop"? You learn something new every day...

As a proofreader I have to correct things like 60's to '60s all the time. http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/george-w-bush-favorable-rating-lowest-living-president-100010623.html My policy is to allow an apostrophe if the style is all caps but lower case s w/o apostrophe if mixed case. So: DVD'S or DVDs, but not DVD's.

Yeah, that's Chandler's deepest, most emotionally complex novel. The classics that precede it are great, but he ups the ante here. He lost his wife and essentially his career shortly after it was published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler Upon which all have now been built. Not.

Vyacheslav Molotov Georgy Malenkov Josef Stalin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fNJ6-5IyCs

Long John Silver Long Dong Silver Clarence Thomas

Jean Goldkette Bix Beiderbecke Frankie Trumbauer

Thomas a Becket Thomas A. Dorsey Tommy Dorsey

Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathanael West Nathan Handwerker

Spalding Gray A.J. Spalding A.J. Weberman

Actually, Jackie made the date because it was Ferris Benda's day off.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/country_for_sale_20120607/

Your language is very fluid.

Greetings, mjb! Winnie Mandela Nelson Mandela Ozzie Nelson