Apostrophe'''''s, when did the rot set in?

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On this page is an official letter from VW from 2002.

http://thanetpcs.co.uk/MkIV/myweb4/oil_change.htm

On it if you look closely you will see the phrase:

retards said:

All Volkswagen vehicle's will be set as default to Extended Servicing...

I had thought the spasticated use of excess apostrophes to be a recent phenomenon.

I was wrong.

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It's shoddy and lazy and infectious.

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ol said:

Dr_Gonzo said:

I've often wondered, are sign makers generally thick or do they just write what they're told without questioning it? I saw two vans on the same day that both said "No Job To Small".

Exactly. We had a bus stop put up outside our school when I was a lad. The school was called 'Queen Elizabeth Grammar school,' yet they managed to spell it 'grammer'...

Did you go to QEGS Blackburn?

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ol said:

Prometheus said:

ol said:

Dr_Gonzo said:

I've often wondered, are sign makers generally thick or do they just write what they're told without questioning it? I saw two vans on the same day that both said "No Job To Small".

Exactly. We had a bus stop put up outside our school when I was a lad. The school was called 'Queen Elizabeth Grammar school,' yet they managed to spell it 'grammer'...

Did you go to QEGS Blackburn?

Nope, QEGS Wakefield. Were you at Blackburn?

Tragically yes.

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Diderot said:

Darkslider said:

Hammerwerfer said:

ShadownINja]To find that kind of schoolboy error in a business letter back then would have been [b]quite unique[b said:

.

Something is either unigue, or it is not.

Unigue?

There are no degrees of uniqueness. People who say: 'truly unique' or 'very unique' should be clubbed with baseball bat's

As should those who use the term "New and improved."