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Re: My Spacebar is OK!


On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>----Original Message----
>>From: Lionel B
>>Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48
>
>> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
>>> 
>>> And don't even get me started
>>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-)
>> 
>> Actually, may I get you started?
>> 
>> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has
>> come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe": 
>
>  Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a
>delightfully ironic twist!

Yep.  This discussion is proceeding as per tradition.

Lets see.  Im wondering how long its going to last.


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