apostrophe watchers
- abecedarian
- apostrophe abuse
- apostrophe appreciation society
- apostrophe atrophy
- apostrophe catastrophes
- apostrophe protection society
- apostrophe.me
- apostrophes and quotation marks
- apostrophism
- bob the angry flower
- eric nelson
- frank zappa
- grammar girl
- TEAL
- the care and feeding of apostrophes
- the society for the promotion of good grammar
- the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks
- wikipedia
Sleepy’s
Click it, you’ll like it! Found by way of TEAL (The Typo Eradication Advancement League).
one-syllable ‘o’ers’
“I’ve got my best guys working around the clock to convert all the ‘overs’ in the piece into one-syllable ‘o’ers.’ I got [Nobel Prize winner Seamus] Heaney and [Margaret] Atwood stripping all the V’s and tacking apostrophes in their place. It’s grunt work, but somebody’s got to do it if this poem’s going to get done.”
—Charles Simac, poet laureate of the United States, quoted in “National Endowment For The Arts Funds Construction Of $1.3 Billion Poem”, The Onion, September 12 2008.
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The improper apostrophe in Lands’ End
“Incidentally . . . a lot of people ask why the apostrophe in Lands’ End is in the wrong place. There have been some silly explanations along the way, but the truth is, it was a mistake.
It was a typo in our first printed piece, and we couldn’t afford to reprint and correct it.
In the years since, the misplaced apostrophe has continued to grace our name and our label. And while it has prompted some raised eyebrows among English teachers, it also sets us apart as a company whose continuing concern for what’s best for the customer is unmistakably human.”
—Gary Comer, Chairman, Land’s End
100 point Bell Gothic
Nikki Villagomez says this is a 100 point Bell Gothic comma, but it looks like an apostrophe to me.
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Booth’s