(Thanks, Peter!)
Off their rocker’s
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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Fresh Strawberry’s $2.00
"What will Fresh Strawberry spend her $2.00 on?"
(Thanks, Patrick!)
Pet’s are Welcome — living at it’s finest!
Seen in the local newspaper in Fort Collins.
(Thanks, Cassy!)
Spotted Banana’s
Spotted at Giamarese Farm in NJ
(Thanks, Kate!)
UPS Retirees’s
http://www.upsretiree.com/
Is this strip joint code language?
Misused apostrophes involving plurals, contractions, and possessives are commonplace and annoying, to be sure, and yet it’s usually not hard to understand how the confusion arises. The author’s intent in this case utterly baffles me. This is a hand-painted advertisement on the side of a building in El Paso, Texas, and the apostrophe is carefully painted with the same red with yellow highlights as the rest of the letters. Is “doo’r” a familiar term for those of you who frequent this sort of establishment? My wife says that it’s obviously a contraction for “do ‘er”, and she may be right. Given the context, though, I’m not sure about that. I’m also not an expert in this sort of thing. Best regards to all you other language purists out there…
It is reliance on coal that China is reducing.
Ad seen on CNN’s site for multibillion dollar Emerson Electric.
Those mean playoffs!
This was in a revolving photo frame at the concierge desk at the Beverly Hilton in LA. I can’t decide if the playoff is abusive, or being abused by someone or something.
It would make a great Lifetime movie title, too.
You are family
Going through a box of photos to add to the family tree, I came across this one, taken in the 1960s. Seems the your/you’re confusion goes back a long way.
Multilingual Abuse
This is a street sign in El Rancho New Mexico. As I recall from my high school profesora, Spanish can only make the possessive through the … de los … construction, and the plural with an -s. Here we see either redundant possession, “Roybal’s’s street”, or leakage of the habit of using an apostrophe-s to make a plural into Spanish.
