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Sunday 21 July 2013
Apostrophe catastrophe, # 15
This one keeps coming round. This time, an email from Nectar makes an ambiguous remark:
Is it intended as a helpful warning (‘Get ready for kids! Summer holidays!’) which simply lacks closure in its first sentence? Or, more likely, should kids have an apostrophe and summer not be treated as a proper noun?
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