Stan CareyI understand the motivation for this apostrophe, but I do not share it.
(from "A Crack in Everything" by Marcus Chown, a fine new book about black holes)
In the conventional spelling, "drinks cabinet", "drinks" is used attributively; there's no need to invoke the possessive case. But you do see occasional variation with compounds like this
On the term "black hole" extending beyond astrophysics to general metaphorical use, from Chown's book
It's funny seeing Terence McKenna cited, given how he repeatedly described the theory of black holes (in its form at the time) as the limit case for credulity
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Adam@stancarey next, the bus' stop, the chip's shop, and the brick's shit's house.
@pseudomonas I will embrace this chaos