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Amazin

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The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« on: February 14, 2007, 00:07:51 »

Spotted an advert for two sound archive CDs entitled:

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Sounds of the Deep
Sounds of the British Coastline's

available from the Online Shop of...

...the British Library.

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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2007, 01:00:51 »
Must send that to my mum. She'll go mental!
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2007, 08:28:39 »
You have, of course, read 'Eats, shoots & leaves'??

A wee sample:

« Last Edit: February 14, 2007, 08:48:33 by tim »
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2007, 08:56:57 »
 ;D ;D ;D

I love Lynne Truss!
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2007, 11:24:47 »
Have to say, though I love reading and the English language and find these mistakes funny, I hate Lynne Truss! Not everyone is lucky enough to have been so well educated that they know where an apostrophe is appropriate. She is so smug. Does a greengrocer cares where an apostrophe goes? If they all get super literate, what will make us smile?  ;)
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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2007, 11:29:59 »
Point taken, but I find her book very helpful - the first attempt to set it out in print - with a touch of humour - which helps make it stick?
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2007, 12:00:23 »
Bull Ring Market...."leggin's £3 a pear"

nothing wrong with that ;D
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #7 on: February 14, 2007, 12:18:49 »
don't get me started! I work in publishing and worked on a book recently that had a hyphen crazy editor. the proofs came back for correction and they'd hyphenated everything...

as much as I love my job, it does mean that I can't read anything without checking for typos and punctuation mistakes – it drives me and OH mad. most of those I've spotted recently have been on the BBC's breakfast programme :o ::)
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #8 on: February 14, 2007, 13:01:46 »
Reminds me of seeing examples like "Its got an LCD display" so its got a liquid crystal display display  :o :o. Theres loads of other examples like that.
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #9 on: February 14, 2007, 16:18:05 »
anyone seen the subtitles on tv lately, worth putting them on for a laugh  ;D ;D
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #10 on: February 14, 2007, 16:51:06 »
Sorry to keep off the ' thread, but recently read a small book by a chum of mine - 120 typos!!  A real let-down for him.

Sorry, too, about all the hyphens, norfolklass - just feeling that way. Freedom of speech - like the '?
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2007, 10:18:53 »
This may or may not be grammatically correct but it made me snigger!

On Freecycle this morning ...

OFFERED: Selection of short medium man's trousers

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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2007, 10:36:06 »
He's grown out of them?
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2007, 11:18:52 »
Or is it even the short medium man that is offering them? Maybe someone's STOLEN them from a short medium man :D
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2007, 11:27:22 »
there was that Conservative slogan from the 1950's that had a disastrous typo.
It should have been "You've never had it: so good!
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Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
« Reply #15 on: February 16, 2007, 16:01:22 »
... and "none sale" items

Whhhaaaaarrgggghhhhhhhh
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