I wish it didn't irritate me that people use the word font when they mean typeface (for which Microsoft is probably largely to blame). But it's as pointless as getting worked up about apostrophes.
(On a stall in Dorchester yesterday there were some flowers which it appeared had been reserved for Big Lily.)
(A current roadworks sign in Weymouth has LORRYS TURNING. Presume they mean LORRY'S.)
Some people think all the apostrophe stuff represents a recent slide in education. Back in the Sixties, though, I remember admiring the new signs on the premises of C CHAPLIN MOTOR’S in Southend.
C Chaplin Motor… a funny name for someone in the used car trade.
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At the Cattle Market up the road, Landlord's can, apparently, buy bed's and sofa's at discount prices. Yeah, I know, why no apostrophe on prices?
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not Dave, that 'C Chaplin Motor's' sign (plastic, white out of blue) was still in place until fairly recently, say four or five years ago. London Road, south side, approaching Chalkwell Park.
ReplyDeleteAstonishing. Of course the fascia was facing roughly north, so presumably sunshine wasn't degrading the plastic. I don't reckon they make plastic like that any more though.
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