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Business names don’t always follow the rules of grammar, and some are so old you don’t know for sure if they are grammatically correct or not. But you might know what the signs look like -right? We’ll find out in today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. You’ll be given a store name, and you decide whether there is an apostrophe in it or not. It’s not as difficult as it sounds -I scored 80%. Link
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How well do you use apostrophes? Test yourself with this simple 10 sentence quiz. You can check each answer as you go, which may improve your performance on the later sentences. Yes, I guessed all of them correctly, even if I do make mistakes when I’m writing in a hurry. Link -via b3ta
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Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal has just released another web project, How to Use An Apostrophe. It’s a hoot! (Notice the proper use of apostrophe in the preceding sentence).
Link (for extra goodness, see the source code) – Thanks Matthew!
Stefan Gatward has been wrestling with inner turmoil ever since the Birmingham city council began removing the apostrophes from the city’s signs this January.
Finally, his frustration was too much to bear, and Stefan took it upon himself to fix the signs. But he didn’t stop there …
He will not join the ‘five items or less’ queue at the supermarket, in protest that the sign should read ‘five items or fewer’.
He also gets annoyed when people-neglect the ‘Royal’ in ‘Royal Tunbridge Wells’, and was vexed when he saw a major chain store advertising sales with signs saying ‘until stocks last’ rather than ‘while stocks last’.
‘I fought for the preservation of our heritage and our language but some people seem happy to let that go. I’m not,’ he said.
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