Friday, January 16, 2009

Criminal Sentence 154: Apostrophe or Comma?

Seen on a used car for sale:

"$2'800"

Sounds like a nice price. A squiggle near the bottom of the line is called a comma; a squiggle up in the air is an apostrophe.
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2 comments:

  1. Doug and AmandaJanuary 16, 2009 at 4:50 PM

    I teach third grade, and some of our math involved calculator skills. We were adding large numbers on our calculators and the children were writing the sums. I noticed some children were putting apostrophes where commas should go. The reason they did this is because that is how their calculators show it. It's frustrating.

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  2. Kathryn MagendieJanuary 18, 2009 at 7:09 AM

    Hope you don't mind I'm following you... *smiling*...

    now, back to read...

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