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General => The Shed => Topic started by: Amazin on February 14, 2007, 00:07:51

Title: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: Amazin on February 14, 2007, 00:07:51

Spotted an advert for two sound archive CDs entitled:

QuoteSounds of the Deep
Sounds of the British Coastline's

available from the Online Shop of...

...the British Library.

:'(
We're doomed.
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: emmy1978 on February 14, 2007, 01:00:51
Must send that to my mum. She'll go mental!
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: tim on February 14, 2007, 08:28:39
You have, of course, read 'Eats, shoots & leaves'??

A wee sample:

Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: katynewbie on February 14, 2007, 08:56:57
 ;D ;D ;D

I love Lynne Truss!
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: emmy1978 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?  ;)
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: tim 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?
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: Hyacinth on February 14, 2007, 12:00:23
Bull Ring Market...."leggin's £3 a pear"

nothing wrong with that ;D
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: norfolklass 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 â€" it drives me and OH mad. most of those I've spotted recently have been on the BBC's breakfast programme :o ::)
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: silly billy 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.
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: manicscousers on February 14, 2007, 16:18:05
anyone seen the subtitles on tv lately, worth putting them on for a laugh  ;D ;D
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: tim 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 '?
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: Trixiebelle 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

Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: tim on February 16, 2007, 10:36:06
He's grown out of them?
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: Trixiebelle 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
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher 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!
Title: Re: The Greengrocer's Apostrophe go's highbrow
Post by: froglets on February 16, 2007, 16:01:22
... and "none sale" items

Whhhaaaaarrgggghhhhhhhh
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