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Re: My Spacebar is OK!
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.
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Lionel B