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.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Especially for Simon
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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.
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?
Let's start with 'Thingz' and move into Toys'R'Us while bypassing FoneZone.
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...
oh G-d.
FoneZone.
Hey, the literally blog is sweet.
As a fine friend of mine would exclaim: 'sick nuts'.
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!!!
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.
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"
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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