[Ads-l] Spread of greengrocer's apostrophe?
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Mon Nov 28 03:00:56 UTC 2016
In the spirit of plurals like taco's, pizza's, and baby's, consider this T-shirt legend I saw being worn the other day:
I WAN'T ABS
(photo of pizza slice)
BUT I WANT PIZZA MORE
with "wan't" as in "won't" or "can't"
Photograph available for anyone interested.
LH
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