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• Great way to start the day

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 119
  It’s still morning here in the States, and the day started out a little rocky on the Yahoo! front page : Those of you with more than a third-grade education will recognize the silly apostrophe in re-examines and the underplayed Southern . That’s one error I’ve never seen before in my life and one that ...
  5 days ago

• An Alcatraz apostrophe catastrophe

  
  RED PEN, INC. — Authority: 85
  I know that Jorge Garcia is really, really awesome.  He does stand-up comedy in his spare time, seems super-cool in interviews, and even sends autographed pictures to fans .  However, all that awesomeness is in ONE person, not two.  There is only one Jorge Garcia--well, at least only one on the new show ...
  1 week ago

• ‘s Out

  
  The Camel's Hump — Authority: 112
  The much abused and maligned apostrophe has suffered greatly at the hands of the barely literate. Now, as bookstore chain Waterstone’s has decided to drop this humble piece of punctuation from its store fronts , even the supposedly literate have decided it’s just not required. Its widespread and inconsistent ...
  1 week ago

• Gina Abelkop does not carry a bouquet of massacred lilies in...

  
  Prose; pop! — Authority: 432
  Gina Abelkop does not carry a bouquet of massacred lilies in this trailer for her poetry chapbook, Darling Beastlettes , on sale through Apostrophe Books , but she does have some of the most gorgeous eyeshadow on in the entire world.
  1 week ago

• Apostrophe Patrol 2012: Fowl Language

  
  Mayor Landwehr's Blog — Authority: 103
  The Patrol could not provide any insight into this. Its a darned  Res Ipsa Loquitur.    
  2 weeks ago

• Hella Positivity – Day 6

  
  Losing Weight IntentionallyLosing Weight Intentionally — Authority: 131
  Find the exclamation mark: ...
  2 weeks ago

• End of an error: Why it’s OK to follow Waterstone’s and ditch the apostrophe

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.mirror.co.uk/ End of an error: Why it’s OK to follow Waterstone’s and ditch the apostrophe Waterstone’s yesterday sparked fury among language purists by announcing it is dropping its apostrophe. published date:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:02:00 GMT
  2 weeks ago

• Plural mistakes

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 119
  What is it about the apostrophe that is so appealing to writers that they want to put it in every plural word they write? Case in point: An article from Yahoo! TV ‘s “Primetime in No Time” where the writer misuses an apostrophe here: and here: and four times here: Filed under: Apostrophes , ...
  2 weeks ago

• Waterstone’s sparks furore as it drops apostrophe from name

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.mirror.co.uk/ Waterstone’s sparks furore as it drops apostrophe from name Waterstone’s yesterday sparked fury among language purists by announcing it is dropping its apostrophe. published date:Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:02:00 GMT
  2 weeks ago

• Its ...

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 727
  Bookstore Waterstones changes its name to ... Waterstones .
  2 weeks ago

• Waterstone’s loses apostrophe: I’m a grammar fanatic. But totally to be frank, I don’t give a monkeys

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Waterstone’s loses apostrophe: I’m a grammar fanatic. But totally to be frank, I don’t give a monkeys TOM UTLEY: The realisation that suddenly swept over me was that I simply didn’t care whether Waterstones, a mere shop, styled itself with an apostrophe or not. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who took the ( ‘ ) out of Waterstone’s?

  
  gibberish — Authority: 111
  Some fucking dick in the Waterstone’s marketing department thinks the apostrophe is an inconvenience in the digital age. Yeah sure it is in a url, but we all know that urls don’t need punctuation and everyone, even Lynne Truss, will live with that. However, to use that as an excuse to rebrand Waterstone’s as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book shop drops name apostrophe

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.bbc.co.uk Book shop drops name apostrophe High street book shop Waterstone’s announces it is dropping the apostrophe from its name to make it more “versatile” for online use. published date:Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:53:19 GMT
  2 weeks ago

• Apostrophe disappears: world ends

  
  English Language @ SFX — Authority: 97
  Apostrophe-lovers are up in arms over Waterstones ...Waterstoness...the decision of Waterstones bookshop to remove the apostrophe from its name. In a move that some punctuation purists have likened to the end of the world, Waterstones (named so because it used to be the firm of one Tim Waterstone, therefore - like ...
  2 weeks ago

• How many parents?

  
  Terribly Write — Authority: 119
  Was it Jordy Nelson’s mom or dad who owned the diner the footballer worked in? According to an editor on the Yahoo! front page  it was just one parent’s restaurant; according to the facts, it was two parents’ diner: Filed under: Apostrophes , Plurals , Possessives , Punctuation Tagged: apostrophe ...
  2 weeks ago

• Waterstones gives up on its apostrophe and changes its logo

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk Waterstones gives up on its apostrophe and changes its logo The bookshop said it will phase out the use of punctuation in its logo after 30 years because it is no longer ‘practical’. published date:Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:44:37 GMT
  2 weeks ago

• Now we’re talkin’

  
  Naptime Writing — Authority: 402
  The United States needs to have more sales like Japan does … from Gawker, via MightyRedPen I want to do marketing overseas, is all Im saying
  2 weeks ago

• No more problems for grocers: Waterstones gives up on its apostrophe because it’s not practical anymore

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk No more problems for grocers: Waterstones gives up on its apostrophe because it’s not practical anymore The bookshop said it will phase out the use of punctuation in its logo after 30 years because it is no longer ‘practical’. published date:Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:21:05 GMT
  2 weeks ago

• My First Album - Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart - Bongo Fury

  
  The Ripple Effect — Authority: 115
    Who the hell gives a 7 year old a Frank Zappa record for Christmas? My oldest brother Joe did. On Christmas morning in 1974 a copy of Zappas latest album Apostrophe () was under the tree for me. Joe and I used to love to listen to Dr. Demento on the radio and he heard "Dont Eat The Yellow Snow" once and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Can we please all stop spelling ‘lose’ as ‘loose’?

  
  Thought Leader — Authority: 418
  No. It couldn’t be. Not here, of all places. But there it was, in black and white, on page 38 of the one bastion of standards in which I still believed, the Mail & Guardian. “The opening of the Gautrain”, reads the sentence in question, “has only marginally dented OR Tambo’s R230-million parking income, ...
  4 weeks ago

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