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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago

TIL there's a "grammar vigilante" who goes out in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place

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TIL there's a "grammar vigilante" who goes out in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place

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Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 5 months ago

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Meet the 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol

One man's 13-year mission to correct punctuation mistakes on public signs.

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It’s more of a crime to have the apostrophe’s wrong in the first place.

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  Half-price drink’s for happy hour at Apostrophe’s!
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    Excellent.

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