Archive for March, 2008

Slightly damaged punctuation

Aron writes:

The following was seen on a bin of ‘slightly-damaged’ goods at a gallery in Kerikeri, New Zealand. What more appropriate place could there be for an inappropriate apostrophe?

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Doe’s this make you feel safe’r?

Erica writes:

The vault door of a local winery offended by its egregious apostrophes. A check of the website, however, shows the company doesn’t confine its abuse to plurals — or even to nouns.


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What I don’t "wan’t" is that extra apostrophe

Tim writes:

I live in Ealing, one of the areas of west London. There’s a local shop that’ll be familiar to any city-dweller: they do dry-cleaning, shoe repair, key-making, engraving, etc. While my wife was inside picking up our dry-cleaning, I waited outside and spotted this sign they had advertising their services.

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More School Abuse

These two restroom signs are courtesy of Shruti, who is depressed that they were displayed

at a local elementary school in Bear, Delaware. It’s just spawning future generations of serial apostrophe abusers.


Since each restroom is apparently only for one particular boy or girl, I wonder where the rest of the children go?

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New’s Paper’s

I love this one sent in by Alan:

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Abuse at a Canadian Diner

Erin writes:

I took a trip across Canada and found so many lost apostrophes strewn about in greasy diners. Here’s one…

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Corn Beef Cabbage + Potato’s

Sigh…

…seen at Simon’s in Downtown Seattle.

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Fox in Sock’s

Marisa sent in this photo she snapped at Macy’s, along with the question,

What would Dr. Seuss say?


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