The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #153065   Message #3582259
Posted By: GUEST,musket
07-Dec-13 - 03:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Pedants be damned
Subject: RE: BS: Pedants be damned
Ok. The superfluous apostrophe gets my goat. Next time I see one on a large enough sign, I shall tether my goat to it.

When I wrote regulatory reports and they were ready for publication, a person employed as a final editor used to get her hands on them and test them for plain English etc.

I printed out one email she sent with her comments and put it on my wall. It said simply, "period outwith parentheses. "

I offered to take a loaded pistol and bottle of whisky into the study. (Couldn't find any whiskey. )