BENCHMARKS
continued
M.C.'s
Spring safari throws up one of those unsettling puzzlers in the style
of the plural of mongoose. Is it mongooses or mongeese? Benchmarker's
word-processor spell-checker indicates the former.
In
this particular case it is to do with the apostrophe; should it be
St. James', or St. James's, or indeed St. James, which is the option
displayed on the gate pillar of this fine Victorian des-res in
Clonskeagh in Dublin City. Of these three choices, Benchmarker's
spell-checker rules out St. James's only.
Below:
The 'mark on St. James' Terrace, Dublin City.
Above:
Number 1 St. James' Terrace. The 'mark is out of sight, on the sill
of the window located under the entrance steps to the right.
