#Mark A Mandel wrote: # #> By the way, I wouldn't say that "two weeks' notice" is notice that #> lasts two weeks. It is notice that informs of a (particular) event #> that will occur in two weeks. Similar is "10 minutes' warning", not #> to be confused grammatically with "a 10-minute warning" (where the #> modifying phrase has been hyphenated into an adjective, losing all #> number in the process, like "a 10-foot pole"). # #Good point. Her correction to "Two Weeks Warning" is to add an apostrophe. #Mine is to drop the s. Then it needs an article and probably a hyphen -- are we talking about "warning" or "notice", or are they the same here?: - She quit without even giving us two weeks' notice! (Grammatical and idiomatic) - She quit without even giving us a two-week notice! (Grammatical though not idiomatic) - She quit without even giving us a two week notice! (Grammatical minus a quibble) - She quit without even giving us two week notice! (Ungrammatical) -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [I talk, Dragon NaturallySpeaking types, I correct. Neither of us is perfect.]