Rebecca writes:
Attached is an example of apostrophe neglect running rampant on the streets of San Antonio’s famous River Walk.
Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve.
Rebecca writes:
Attached is an example of apostrophe neglect running rampant on the streets of San Antonio’s famous River Walk.
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– November 12, 2008
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I believe it’s named after a song called “Waxies’ Dargle” which the Pogues do a rather wonderful version of, if you’re interested.
They must have assumed the general public wouldn’t recognize this mistake and decided to leave it out to save some money on the sign.