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Apostrophics Now

Postby gpuss » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:46 am

This one popped up on Twitter yesterday. It should fill proofreaders with both despair and mental ka-chings.

http://twitter.com/D_Shariatmadari/stat ... to/1/large
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Re: Apostrophics Now

Postby gpuss » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:49 am

According to @Glinner (Graham Linehan of Father Ted fame), after he tweeted this howler he was inundated with respondents explaining why the sign was, in fact, correct.

ka-ching!
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Re: Apostrophics Now

Postby k_j_evans » Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:26 pm

Well, of course, several letters have been omitted from both words ...

Sainsburys used to have "course ground coffee" (until I took a black felt tip to it!).
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Re: Apostrophics Now

Postby gpuss » Sun Jun 24, 2012 1:48 pm

k_j_evans wrote:course ground coffee

It's actually ground under horses' hooves at Ascot, so it was right all along.
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