After enduring sloppy punctuation on the street sign outside his home for more than a year, Stefan Gatward could stand it no longer. The 62-year-old former soldier decided to launch a one-man crusade against 'dumbed down' Britain, and picked up a paintbrush to insert a missing apostrophe. This turned the incorrect St Johns Close into the correct St John's Close.But he was immediately accused of being a vandal by one neighbour, and his amendments have been scratched off by others who apparently prefer the wrong version.
(via Neatorama)
2 comment(s):
It looks like he did a nice neat job of the apostrophe.
Stefan Gatward deserves our full support in his noble crusade against bad English!
Does anybody have his email address? I'd very much like to hear his opinion on the use of dashes in web addresses:-
http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/aug/friendly_url_should_not_use_dashes_to_represent_spaces
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