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Aug '10

Daily Fail

   Posted by: lyle

Always nice to see when the Daily Fail gets to screw things up. (again)

In this case, they’ve managed to forget to put two photo captions in on one story. (This may have changed on the page by the time you look at it)

First example

Text with "Caption here" instead of a phone captionSecond example

Way to go, Daily Fail!

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Feb '10

Apostrophe Question

   Posted by: lyle

One for the pedants out there (you know who you are) because for once I’m just not sure…

In Homebase over the weekend, I ended up looking at seed potato sets. I know, what a classy life. Anyway, reading the back (Hey, I was bored) I saw this…

Apostrophe in the text of the seed potato set

Is this apostrophe errant or not?

I know that an apostrophe is used in the case of compressions (i.e. “there is” becoming “there’s”) but I’m fairly sure it doesn’t apply in the case of an abbreviation.

So to my knowledge this apostrophe is incorrect, but equally I’ve been known to be wrong on these finer points…

So – am I right? Or is this OK?

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