Spotted at the Modell's sporting goods store in Cambridge, MA
Quotation marks in place of an apostrophe? Really?
Monday, April 27, 2009
Is It Really That Difficult?
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5 comments:
Really? That's a good one!
Gah...just a typo, but still you'd think they'd notice before printing.
Step away from the Shift key...
That's a first (for me, anyway).
I guess when you're out of apostrophes you resort to the next best thing...quotation marks.
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