On a sign at a drugstore:
"Cambell,s soup"
Sure the p is silent, but it's not absent.
And a comma is not the same as an apostrophe. See this mini-rant.
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- New Grammar Girl Episode: "Because" or "Due to"?
- Poll Results 64
- Criminal Sentence 307: Coffee with No Apostrophe
- Poll Results 63
- Criminal Sentence 306: Not Expecting
- New Grammar Girl Episode: Where versus In Which
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- Poll Results 62
- Criminal Sentence 302: What kind of soup is that?
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- Traditional or Modern Apostrophe
- Writer Mag Column 11: Avoiding Generic Words and C...
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2 comments:
I assume this intentional because they ran out of sign material. I hope.
If only it were intentional! We can hope, it's true!
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