I am pleased to see that the horse-drawn carriage (coach and four) that once appeared on packages of Thomas’ English Muffins still appears on Thomas’ trailers, or at least one of those trailers. You’ll have to take my word for it: I was driving.
The coach and four disppeared from the package several years ago: Thomas’ missing carriage.
[Thomas’ spells its name without an s after the apostrophe.]
Monday, May 11, 2026
The Thomas’ carriage rides on
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apparently they had a real one for advertising purposes
https://nydailynews.newspapers.com/newspage/456251045/
Speaking of old apostrophes, at one point a decade or two ago, I suddenly realized that no one was putting the apostrophe in Hallowe'en. My spell still takes both versions.
The apostrophe served as reminder that the next day was All Saints Day.
Garner’s Modern English Usage says that the no-apostrophe form took over in American English in the 1940s, and in British English in the 1970s. I think it’s sometimes a pleasure to use older forms. I like typing telephone instead of phone for a landline.
Nice advertising on wheels. They appear to have had a promotional food truck more recently, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen it.
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