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Thread #88001   Message #1649603
Posted By: Jim Dixon
16-Jan-06 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: Plurals don't require apostrophes!
Subject: RE: BS: Plurals don't require apostrophes!
Here's another curiosity for you:

In England, in Corwall, at the extreme tip of the peninsula, there's a place called Land's End -- at least that's how the Ordnance Survey punctuates it. However, Cornwall 365, another "official"-looking site, omits the apostrophe, and so does the "official" signpost – see the photo at the bottom of the page.

In America, there's a popular mail-order clothing company called Lands' End, with headquarters in Dodgeville, Wisconsin. According to Wikipedia, "Lands' End was started as a sailboat equipment company in 1963 in Chicago, Illinois.... The company is named from its sailboat heritage, after Land's End [Cornwall], but the misplaced apostrophe in the company name was a typographical error that the founders elected to keep, as promotional materials had already been printed."