Monday, October 12, 2009

Apostrophe Neglect: Were Local

Mr. Turner saw this sign at Ohio State Route 309 and Ohio State Route 314 in Richland County:

7 comments:

Sheri said...

They have moved out of town. I guess you have to call them to find out where.

shiva said...

He turns into a local on the night of a full moon?

i {heart} papers said...

Maybe they were local but aren't now. :)

Anonymous said...

I give them partial credit for effective use of color. Frankly, when I first saw this picture, I read it as we're, and only after thinking about it for a little while did I see werelocal as did shiva.

Anonymous said...

What's the big deal? They must have moved far far away.

dtw42 said...

Hm. Since in this type of sign each character is presumably some sort of clip-on panel, it's entirely possible that they just didn't HAVE any apostrophes. Which is some justification, I suppose.

Mare said...

Finally, a blog devoted to one of my pet peeves. A trip through Phoenix would provide you with endless photo opps!