Rick writes:
This is the Activity Office at a local high school in the Minneapolis area. I’m surprised no English teachers have complained yet.
Ouch — abuse hurts so much more when it’s at an educational facility!
Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve.
Rick writes:
This is the Activity Office at a local high school in the Minneapolis area. I’m surprised no English teachers have complained yet.
Ouch — abuse hurts so much more when it’s at an educational facility!
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– December 30, 2007
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I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s where the activities make administrative decisions.
Maybe it could be short for “Activities Department’s Office?”
If I had to pass it every day, I think I’d tell myself that’s what it meant, just to maintain my sanity.
Breeding a whole school full of little apostrophe abusers…
And we wonder why the kids misuse apostrophes!