My Spacebar is OK!

Lionel B lionelbuk@yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jun 13 17:06:00 GMT 2005


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Lionel B
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48
>> 
>>> 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":
>> 
>>  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
>> delightfully ironic twist!
> 
> Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.
> 
> Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.

Till it runs it's course.





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