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Breaking news: coffee shop spells “espresso” correctly!

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New rule: only fancy words get inappropriate apostrophes.

Photo by Marissa, via e-mail

Wordsploded by Mark

January 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

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4 Responses to 'Breaking news: coffee shop spells “espresso” correctly!'

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  1. Okay, that’s just bizarre. Did the sign have multiple authors who were working independently or something?

    Naked Bunny with a Whip

    29 Jan 09 at 6:53 am

  2. There are some words that, even when you are pluralising them correctly, just don’t look right. For example, if you were talking about Dora the Explorer dolls, and you wrote “There are many Doras on the shelf” the word “Doras” looks weird. So if you wanted to “fix” it, an apostrophe is mighty tempting.

    GuanoLad

    29 Jan 09 at 7:20 am

  3. Consistency is the thing. I wish all the words had apostrophes. Smooth’ies would have been a hoot.

    Tye

    29 Jan 09 at 10:35 am

  4. …and in Parisian terms, that would have been hot, as well.

    Noob Saibot

    30 Jan 09 at 10:12 pm

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