Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve.
Alice writes:
I have to believe, for the sake of humanity, that the apostrophe placement on this check is simply a typo. It makes my brain hurt to think otherwise.
Is that check as in the British for cheque?I’m not as surprised by the error as I am by the need to write screamin’ on a cheque.
I wonder what the full business name is...Incidentally, I've sent in a handful of good examples to the e-mail address listed, but they never make it up here. It makes me sad.
john --I've had occasions where some posts go directly into GMail's Spam Folder, so I don't end up seeing them -- feel free to resubmit!I also have a backlog of 14-15 posts; I just got back from my wedding and honeymoon.
congratulations! i see them now, thanks for digging them up!
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Is that check as in the British for cheque?
I’m not as surprised by the error as I am by the need to write screamin’ on a cheque.
I wonder what the full business name is...
Incidentally, I've sent in a handful of good examples to the e-mail address listed, but they never make it up here. It makes me sad.
john --
I've had occasions where some posts go directly into GMail's Spam Folder, so I don't end up seeing them -- feel free to resubmit!
I also have a backlog of 14-15 posts; I just got back from my wedding and honeymoon.
congratulations! i see them now, thanks for digging them up!
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