Showing posts with label apostrophes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apostrophes. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 January 2013

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 2

My cousin had this for Christmas:



Found it yet? Here's the detail enlarged:


They also do this one:

King of the kitchen, but not of the grammar…

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 1

Leaving aside the hideous pun, note that the mark in front of the n isn't an apostrophe but an open inverted comma or quotation mark, while another letter in the word has been omitted and not marked at all:



The Oxford Dictionaries website shows how to do this abbreviation of 'and' correctly, using two apostrophes, on its 'apostrophe' page:


* See also the Its and it's entry on this blog