By: rahmah
Animate n inanimate…goat’s cheese…plant’s leaves ,john’s car…vs house key , car door…can’t we not apply this rule?
View ArticleBy: paulonbooksPaul
Having just seen “goat’s cheese” on a menu and flinched, I’d say no apostrophe on the basis that anything to stem the rising tide of apostrophe’s (joke) is a good thing.
View ArticleBy: substuff
A rising tide? Really? I've not noticed one, but it's interesting to hear you say it. Here's a <a...
View ArticleBy: rahmah
I’d go with Rita though….lost sight of the fact that the goat doesnt own the cheese ..he he
View ArticleBy: Neil Cross
Madam, I salute your pedantry. After lengthy consideration, I have decided to go with “goat’s cheese”, although I believe there is also a strong case for the adjectival form (“goats cheese”).
View ArticleBy: Sylvia
If we use the source as an adjective and forget about plurals and possessives it simplifies everything and provides a uniform style, e.g.: cow milk cheese, goat milk cheese and sheep milk cheese.
View ArticleBy: Sophie James
This is very helpful, thank you. I agree with you about goat’s cheese – treating them as one species. I am currently living in LA, but originally from UK, and the goat cheese/goat’s cheese/goats’...
View ArticleBy: H3000
I appreciate that this argument began around two years ago, but for a different, somewhat Platonic, spin: Perhaps one could argue that the singular goat implied in “goat’s cheese” acts as a...
View ArticleBy: Freelance Unbound
I salute this commenter – outside academia, only on ranting subs does such a level of linguistic discourse occur…
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