Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Delicattesen
img src="http://www.grammarblog.co.uk/z_images/banners/v2launch.gif" border="0" title="We've moved to www.grammarblog.co.uk" alt="We've moved to www.grammarblog.co.uk" />
Here we have another missing accent combined with a superfluous apostrophe.
What is a 'Delicattesen'? Why are there companies that don't know how to spell their own services?
posted by Gez at 2:46 pm
Subscribe and Share
Previous Posts
Friends
- 1000 Tiny Things I Hate
- AA Gill's Times Column
- Apostrophe Abuse
- SPOGG
- Stephen Fry's blog
- The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks
- Mighty Red Pen
- lowercase L
- Literally a web log
- Elisabeth Writes
- Never in all my life
- The Engine Room
- I Love Typography
- spEak You’re bRanes
- Passive Aggressive Notes
- T.E.A.L.
Enemies (aka The List)
Reading List
It's not just you
4 Comments:
What is it with apostrophes? I see them all the time from supposedly professional types. Next to unnecessary quotation marks, they're my biggest pet peave.
Yikes! This one actually caused me pain as I was reading it. The apostrophe issue seems to be getting much worse of late. Or am I just getting more Nazi-like?
(Enjoying your site!)
Maybe they were going for a French look? "Entree" has an accent on, I think, the next to last e when written in French. Maybe the sign-orderer wrote this but the sign-maker threw it in as an apostrophe instead.
By the way... Focacceria (an italian word) has only three "c", not four.
:)
Ivo
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]