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galateus ([info]galateus) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2012-01-13 11:08:00
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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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[info]full_metal_ox
2012-01-17 10:25 pm UTC (link)
It's definitely a Michigan thing too. I'd bet people in Wisconsin and northern Ohio do it as well.

And not just northern Ohio--Daytonians and Cincinnatians routinely shop at Kroger's* and Meijer's.

*And then you get the handful of arch wiseacres--the same sort who patronize Tarjay and Skullini's Chili--who refer to the gentrified Kroger superstores as Krojair's.

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