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An associate degree or associate's degree is an undergraduate degree awarded after a course of post-secondary study lasting two to three years. It is a level of academic qualification above a high school diploma and below a bachelor's degree .
The apostrophe seems to be generally preferred across Wikipedia for both bachelor's and master's degrees, and is used for both the article titles. It should probably be used here unless there is an overriding reason not to (I can't think of one). Robminchin 04:18, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Associate degree is also recommended by the AP style guide (although Chicago allows either associate or associate's). There doesn't seem to be a good reason to change, and there is certainly a body that considered "associate's" to be incorrect (while there is no dispute over "associate"), so I think we're better sticking with the current name.
An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are examples of how and when to use an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. The post Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe appeared first on ...
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Timothy Pulju, a senior lecturer in linguistics at Dartmouth College, said that until the 17th or 18th century, the possessive of proper names ending in S — such as Jesus or Moses — often was ...
My main concern is the combination of (1) not having an imperfect date-rendering program botch the punctuation, (2) not having people fight over personal/national style when all we have to do is say "There is only one preferred style (in terms of punctuation and ordering) of writing dates at Wikipedia (except in verbatim quotes from other ...
The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't"