Dec 5 2010

Mahalo!

Mahalo

’Okinas or apostrophes? Wrong or wrong.

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Oct 7 2010

Um, It’s Its.

MTA

Courtesy of Andrew Willett, who adds, “and yet there are copy editors going hungry.”

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Apr 20 2010

Thoma’s Muffins

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Holy mispostrophe, Batman! This is in fact a misspelled mispostrophe, a typo for “Thomas’.” The possessive of Thomas is “Thomas’s.” Thomas is not Jesus, for God’s sake.

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Apr 20 2010

Mispostrophe #1

Mispostrophe — a word — was coined earlier today. It seemed only wise to snap the domain up right away. Soft’ees (pictured below) now and forever holds the inestimable honor of being the first mispostrophe identified as such.

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