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Wednesday 18 June 2014
Apostrophe catastrophe, # 47
This doesn’t even exist!
Source: Peter Buitenhuis, The Great War of Words: Literature as Propaganda, 1914-18 and After (London: Batsford, 1989), p. 6
Their’s not to reason why, | Their’s but to do or die
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