Let us prey
The Wall Street Journal is well edited -- one rarely finds an error. But today, on the front page no less, a glaring, sorrowful exemplum of apostrophe abuse:
Easier to spot here:
As the Apostrophe Protection Society will maintain until the last vocable is uttered by the last humanoid, "Let's" = let us.
Could eagle-eyed Journal editors be distracted by the impending predation of Mr. Murdock?
Easier to spot here:
As the Apostrophe Protection Society will maintain until the last vocable is uttered by the last humanoid, "Let's" = let us.
Could eagle-eyed Journal editors be distracted by the impending predation of Mr. Murdock?
Labels: apostrophe, language abuse, predatory capitalism ensures linguistic decay, Rupert Murdock, Wall St. Journal
posted by Tom Matrullo at Thursday, July 19, 2007
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