My Spacebar is OK!

Lionel B lionelbuk@yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 13 15:30:00 GMT 2005


Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>
> And don't even get me started
> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)

Actually, may I get you started?

In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe":

    Fresh Tomato's,  £1.50/kg

> P.S. WatchOutForFallingHippos

Or, at my local corner shop:

    Falling Hippo's - this week only! -  12p/kg

Now that's some bang for your buck.

-- 
Lionel B




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