Sunday 30 November 2014

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 65

Singer-songwriter Ian Bourne posted to Facebook this extract from an unsolicited invitation he’d been sent, and kindly agreed to let me use it on the blog:


The first paragraph’s apostrophe catastrophe has a stylistically and grammatically dubious set of supporters, notably the arbitrary and sometimes bizarre capitalization throughout the text, the odd use of inverted commas in the second paragraph, and the multiple exclamation marks after ‘NOW’.
haven’t; random capitalization; our ‘one time’ registration

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