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Apostrophe Apocalypse
With news that Waterstone's have dropped their apostrophe, pedants across the kingdom are prophesying the end of days as the apostrophe wanders blindly across our signs and portents. However, is it really the apocalypse?
Michael Rosen says we need to all just bow to the inevitable and accept that "the apostrophe is on the way out" and it turns out that those "rules" might just be "ultimately about power: about who has the power to make decisions."
Read his piece here and prepare yourself for some hardcore grammar
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Not just the apocalypse but the apocalypse's armageddon! This is a Rosenkavalier attitude to orthography, orthodoxy and rightthinking in general. After swallowing up Ottakar's (a real bookshop) Waterstone's' should have had a double apostrophe for those few months before it disappeared up its own fundament in Wood Green and elsewhere. Down with Rosen, I say. Keep him off Radio 4. He's a corrupting influence, so don't let him near the skoolkid'z. He's fit only for Forced Akadamese. Above all, don't let him lurk around the korners of my NUTs' The Teecher mag. ever again.
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It won't make a blind bit of difference to the footfall in their branches... It'll still remain untouched by rioters!
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Permalink Reply by cara howard on
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It's for this very reason (and many others) that I don't shop in "Morrisons" and will never watch the film "Two weeks notice".
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