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Daily Archives: January 5, 2011

50% right is 50% wrong.

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Alden

  Lisa feels sorry for “poor Mia and her excess apostrophe.”  But I think that’s missing the point.  Clearly the salon belongs to Mia’s getaway.  Of course, then we have some random spaces going on, so…  I don’t know.

Posted in apostrophes, other punctuation mistakes, punctuation | Tagged apostrophe, errors, grammar, punctuation, quotation marks, quotes, writing
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