I love modern design, and often buy my holiday cards from MoMA’s online store. This year, while searching for cards, I came across this and my respect for MoMA went down a click. Maybe that’s why these cards are on sale.
Holiday’s what?
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Fox News doesn’t identify error in “I.D.’s”
Apparently Fox News is using “Mother” to mean “huge,” so the headline of this article roughly translates into English as something like this:
Huge California Identification’s Missing Daughter’s Bracelet
How can a California ID be missing a bracelet belonging to that ID’s daughter? I guess that’s why this mystery has yet to be solved.
Large Sandwich’s?
Veterans Day Conundrum
The holiday is commonly printed as Veteran’s Day or Veterans’ Day in calendars and advertisements. While these spellings are grammatically acceptable, the United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling. [Link]
One kid’s catalogue
The Auckland City library has a new webpage, and some lucky kid has his (or her) catalogue featured. I guess one doesn’t need to be an English major to build a website, but surely somebody in the library system would have checked the content before it was published?
Ruby Tuesday’s Survey
I just came across this while completing an on-line survey for Ruby Tuesday:
Its Precision, It’s Complexity
Short story – someone “corrected” a UPS billboard at Grand Central Terminal by adding an unnecessary apostrophe.
I wrote about it on my own blog.
New sign, same error
Remember the kid’s studio at http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2008/12/very-private-kindergarten.html ?
They have a new sign, but haven’t corrected the error!
Contractions are complicated. You’re = Your Are. Right?
From the local childcare-are-us.
Dress’s
Mandurah, Western Australia:Â I don’t understand how they could mess it up in precisely this way.
(Maybe they ran out of the letter E?)