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Friday 12 November 2010
The Rogue Apostrophe Strikes Again
On Remembrance Day, you would expect the Sydney Morning Herald could manage to check the name of the organisation to which many who fought for us belong. But no:
My, that is bad. "...many who fought for us..." - why did they bother, eh?
ReplyDeleteI suppose, to be fair, punctuation wasn't at the top of their agenda in the fight against Nazism et cetera.
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