Thursday, March 20, 2008

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.


6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Clearly it stands for "was not".

Anonymous said...

Perhaps they are pointing out that you really can have anything you want engraved on there, no matter how grammatically incorrect!

Greekgeek said...

G'ood Gri'ef! I just stumbled onto this blog while updating my Care and Feeding of Apostrophes webpage, and I think I may have a seizure looking at some of your examples. I hope you don't mind if I add an RSS feed to this blog!

Anonymous said...

That's really bad!

sixtyforty said...

I'm particularly fond of the lone lower case M hanging out there along the bottom.

Karen said...

Well...at least they got "bubbles" right...