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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Friday, November 13, 2009
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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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