Chris wrote:
"My mother is English and lives in the States and she's always struck by
its (genitive) absence everywhere you go in the US."
Your mother is right of course. It's a grammatically incorrect trend and
it's rampant. I even see "journalists" on television making such
mistakes. Then again, the President's speech and grammar sets a bad
example. Roman
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