Friday, May 11, 2007

Cowley Street: Is there a grammarian in the house?

Lovers of the apostrophe will be saddened by the heading of a press release on the Lib Dem website:

Brown should take responsibility for Labours failure's - Campbell

I think the Education Secretary must take a share of the blame too.
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4 comments:

  1. Jonny Wright11 May, 2007 20:09

    Your very dedicated indeed to spend you're time pointing that out. Lover's of the apostrophe will be devastated. The Lib Dem website usually has very good content, and its a real shame that it's webmaster has allowed this to slip the net.

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  2. Anonymous11 May, 2007 21:31

    Back on duty and now corrected.

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  3. Paul Hulbert11 May, 2007 21:43

    I have a theory that the language contains exactly the right number of apostrophes. It's just unfortunate that lots of them are in the wrong places...

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  4. Tom Barney12 May, 2007 22:21

    My favourite:

    '"Yes," she said. "Those things over there are my husbands."'

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