David Marsh, who created International Apostrophe Day, isn’t troubled by the disappearance of the apostrophe from the name of the British book chain Waterstones (was Waterstone’s). Nor am I. It’s tedious turning names ending in ’s into possessives. Consider Chuck E. Cheese’s.
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Waterstones’s missing apostrophe
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...harumph!
I'm going to pack up all my proper-noun possessives in my old kit bag, and bring them for sustenance on my eventual trip to the high mountaintop; the place from where I'll likely be hurling my pronouncements. :)
(Or, just hurling from all the climbing.)
Don’t forget the misplaced apostrophe in Lands’s End. :)
Alas, in this one thing, I am not a Neo-Ledd'ite. :)
That’s a better joke on the name than the one I lived with in kidhood (my dad in his too), which had to do with atomic number 82 and the human cranium. :)
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