Apostrophe Atrophy
Okay, so I'm late to the party, again, probably due to some sort of atrophy of brain parts. Fortunately, a post from Melanie Pinola at LifeHacker popped up in my RSS reader which alerted me to the fact that I'd missed International Apostrophe Day, which apparently took the world by storm on 18th August, but mysteriously passed me by.
Anyway, the post quoted a tweet from Sam Tanner (which was later revealed to have been sourced from one Will Rolls).
"An apostrophe is the difference between a business that knows its shit and a business that knows it's shit."
Oh yes! That appeals to the punctuation warrior in me.
If you ever have the urge to correct bad punctuation while you're out and about, you might enjoy Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss. Even if you don't go about with a black felt-tip marker at the ready, but smiled at the tweet, it's still worth a read.
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