Sunday, June 24, 2007

Especially for Simon

Guppy's to Puppy's has made me chuckle since childhood. I even surprised myself at how enjoyable it was to read Simon's tome exalting the humble apostrophe. Here is a blog dedicated to tracking the misuse of the beloved mark. Although, I am still more of a literally girl.
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10 comments:

  1. Simon ElliottJune 24, 2007 at 7:08 AM

    Your title had me thinking of the nadir of the 80s: a duet between Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue...but that's probably more to do with the previous post.

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  2. shazJune 24, 2007 at 12:48 PM

    I do identify with the frustration behind the misuse of the apostrophe, although i must say it's incorrect spelling that drives me insane. Especially when shop owners spell the name of their business wrong...on purpose! Why? They must be under some sort of delusion that it's clever? This is annoying me now though, I can't think of a single example! I ALWAYS see them, and now that I try to think of just one, I can't! Anyone seen any lately?

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  3. Simon ElliottJune 24, 2007 at 1:47 PM

    Let's start with 'Thingz' and move into Toys'R'Us while bypassing FoneZone.

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  4. ClareJune 24, 2007 at 1:52 PM

    I hear you Shaza, I validate your frustration.

    Bonza bronz
    Beach Bumz
    3nx (trinix)
    L@tte - how do you pronounce that?

    There are more, but I try not to remember them, for obvious reasons...

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  5. ClareJune 24, 2007 at 1:53 PM

    oh G-d.

    FoneZone.

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  6. Simon ElliottJune 24, 2007 at 2:17 PM

    Hey, the literally blog is sweet.

    As a fine friend of mine would exclaim: 'sick nuts'.

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  7. Mikey BJune 25, 2007 at 10:24 AM

    That's a shame if he literally has sick nuts. There are doctors for that sort of thing.

    Bed Bath 'n' Table - what the hell is 'n'?????

    What annoys me is the ATM machine and that sort of stupidity. An automatic teller machine machine. BRILLIANT gear!!!

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  8. Simon ElliottJune 25, 2007 at 10:30 AM

    Well, the 'n' (if I had access to typographer's quotations on this website) is a truncation of 'and'—one apostrophe for the lack of an 'a', another for the lack of a 'd'.

    Still scary, yet not grammatically heretical.

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  9. shazJune 25, 2007 at 4:54 PM

    Ah yes. Now I remember them. Also:

    Letz Rent-a-Car
    Kleen-it
    SleepRite Furniture

    And this one I'll include more for the sake of amusement:

    "Beadsy Beads: Creativity Beyond Imagination"

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  10. Simon ElliottJuly 8, 2007 at 10:15 PM

    I just saw 'Krazy Dons Electrical'.

    It wins on two counts: dodgy spelling and an absence of apostrophetic diplomacy (or something)

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