The other day I received an unidentified letter in the mail
warning in big bold letters (exactly as written) “Are you on the Conservatives
Enemies’ list?” I opened it eagerly to find that it was from the NDP telling me,
among other things, of a data base operated by the Conservatives. I was heartened to learn that I am likely not
alone on that data base. But I was also
bothered by the bad grammar. The
envelope should have read: “Are you on the Conservatives’ Enemies list?” Apparently the federal NDP, while no longer
socialist, still has problems with its possessives.
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