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|  10-29-2009, 12:18 PM | #1 | 
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			dubiously: who says "sport teams"?  Maybe if you are only talking about a single sport, but it would then be more common to say baseball teams, or soccer teams.
		 
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|  10-29-2009, 12:31 PM | #2 | 
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			Teams is a dumb word. Make it Intramural Athletics. | 
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|  10-29-2009, 01:29 PM | #3 | 
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|  10-29-2009, 12:39 PM | #4 | 
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			How about: School Bake Sale 
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|  10-29-2009, 01:27 PM | #5 | 
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			Pardon me whilst I stab myself in the eyeballs with a fork.
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|  10-29-2009, 01:33 PM | #6 | 
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			although...... I do like that better, especially since I changed the wording a little so that won't be as repetitive as it would have been..... thanks    
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|  10-29-2009, 01:54 PM | #7 | 
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			B is right but I like fobbles idea of side stepping the whole issue. I'm not too smart but I have made a many a banner. I would err on the part of discretion and leave the apostrophe off. | 
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|  10-29-2009, 02:01 PM | #8 | 
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			I would go with fobble's idea too.   
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|  10-29-2009, 11:53 PM | #9 | 
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			Shouldn't that be, I would go with 'fobble's idea too? Intra-Mural Jocks   
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|  10-29-2009, 02:28 PM | #11 | 
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|  10-29-2009, 02:44 PM | #12 | 
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|  10-29-2009, 03:36 PM | #13 | 
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			They don't look like they'd slip to me, but might be quite clumsy for side-stepping.  ugg indeed   I did go with fobble (    )  subject to teacher's "approval" -he admitted he assumed it was possessive..... I removed the hyphen too, I'll probably get fired for that one   
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|  10-29-2009, 05:13 PM | #14 | 
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			Yeah, they'll take back your whole salary from the last year...
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|  10-29-2009, 06:00 PM | #15 | 
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			people do not understand possessives, I've come to understand.  a terrible failing of our grammar instruction, although it doesn't seem that hard a concept to me . . .
		 
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