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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:
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.
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.
ReplyDeleteBack on duty and now corrected.
ReplyDeleteI 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...
ReplyDeleteMy favourite:
ReplyDelete'"Yes," she said. "Those things over there are my husbands."'