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Pedants’ Corner or How We Amuse Ourselves at Breakfast

25 November, 2015
Posted in: Princess

From: Herself
To: Me
Re: Girls’ and women’s
Sent: 07:51 (14 hours ago)

When your last hope for humanity is the cereal box.

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I think herself is concerned that she may be one of the only people now living who is familiar with the correct use of the apostrophe.

Also, does everyone else read food packaging labels when there is nothing else available? I think it is hereditary; my father still knows off by heart all the labels which graced his parents’ table in the 20s and 30s.

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  1. Nicola says

    27 November, 2015 at 10:00

    Wait a second! Those apostrophes seem right to me. Or have I missed the point?

  2. disgruntled says

    27 November, 2015 at 20:53

    Yes, I’ve just spent longer than was probably sensible checking thatmyself. Maybe the Princess’s expectations of correct apostrophisation are so low that she’s taken to only emailing about the ones that are right to save time?

    *double checks her own apostrophisation before hitting ‘submit comment’*

    (and yes ‘apostrophisation’ is now a word)

  3. belgianwaffle says

    28 November, 2015 at 02:32

    Both, I am pleased that you have been worried about apostrophes. To clarify: she is relieved that the cereal box was correct. She sees in this hope for the future of the apostrophe.

  4. disgruntled says

    29 November, 2015 at 11:25

    OTOH, I’m not sure about their capitalisation of nouns; we’re not Germans

  5. belgianwaffle says

    29 November, 2015 at 17:58

    Oooh, fair point, looks like they might be eliminated from competition on these grounds.

  6. tulips says

    20 December, 2015 at 16:38

    Indeed, I did read these labels. That’s why my French and Italian vocabularies are not bad – I’m Swiss and each label here is in German, French and Italian …

  7. belgianwaffle says

    20 December, 2015 at 18:06

    Ah, you Swiss label readers have opportunities that the rest of the world can only dream of..

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