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Apostrophes: Serious Business

I just... I think I'll just leave these here:

Waterstones, the bookshop, has dropped the apostrophe in its trading name and logo, sparking outrage among some of its customers.

"It's just plain wrong", said John Richards, chairman of the Apostrophe Protection Society

(Tried going meta by putting "Apostrophe's:" in the subject, but I think that was just too evil for the mods.)

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	spawn_of_kong 2012-01-13 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	... Apostrophe Protection Society. ... APOSTROPHE. PROTECTION. SOCIETY. ...Okay, now I've seen it all. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	scifantasy 2012-01-13 07:38 pm UTC (link)
	Now I'm trying to make it scan to "Mutual Admiration Society"... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2012-01-14 05:09 am UTC (link)
	They came for the apostrophes, but I wasn't a punctuation mark, so I just kind of said "what" and... Oh, never mind. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	librarianmouse 2012-01-14 05:41 am UTC (link)
	That was my very favorite part. Can we start the Semicolon Appreciation Society next? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	risha 2012-01-14 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	I'll join; I love a good semicolon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iris 2012-01-15 12:40 am UTC (link)
	I agree; it's a lovely little piece of punctuation. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fern_on_fen 2012-01-15 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	It's a popular punctuation mark around here; my boss dressed up as a semicolon for Halloween once. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2012-01-17 03:46 am UTC (link)
	I've been known to abuse them sometimes; woken up with a few stuck to my face. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jat_sapphire 2012-01-14 06:24 am UTC (link)
	Their website! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fern_on_fen 2012-01-15 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, God. Was that designed in the 90s? (90's?) The colors. The fonts. The layout. I cry. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jat_sapphire 2012-01-16 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Tsk-tsk: 90s. Yeah, the apostrophe is apparently not the only thing they protect. Angelfire, we hardly knew thee. Or maybe Geocities. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	spacelogic 2012-01-17 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	'90s, surely. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	caffeine_fairy 2012-01-17 11:47 am UTC (link)
	Yarg, that hurts... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	the__ivorytower 2012-01-14 06:40 am UTC (link)
	It's because I steal them to work in my comma fields. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	verlaine 2012-01-14 07:26 am UTC (link)
	Where were they when I was proofreading freshman papers in college? (Reply to this)(Parent)

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