Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2000/12

From: "Ian Black" <clarinet1@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Apostrophe
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 06:05:36 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subject: Re: [kl] Apostrophe

> Over here, the "Tony's" sort of apostrophe gets called "the greengrocers'
> apostrophe" -- because of the prevalence of signs in their shops reading
> "spring green's", "brussel's sprout's", "runner bean's", and, even, "tomatoe's"
> (no kidding..).
> Roger S.

Roger,

(and potatoe's which I've seen on more than one occasion!)

I've never actually heard it called that, but wholeheartedly agree that greengrocers are the worst
culprits. However, one of the worst ones I saw as a child was a sign outside the Royal Mail depot
which read:

Hillfoot Postmens' Sorting Office

It stood for a couple of years before it was corrected.

Ian

(to keep on topic, that's the sorting office I went to to collect a package of music from June
Emerson when it wouldn't fit through my letterbox).

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