I am a grammar and punctuation Nazi and I'm not afraid to admit it. A missing or misplaced apostrophe makes me feel decidedly uncomfortable so you can imagine the horror I felt when I saw, staring back at me in large letters from the back page of The Sun on Friday, the headline 'Lamps War'.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007290814,00.html
The article was talking about a war belonging to Frank Lampard. Surely 'Lamp's War' is what it should have said.
I find it hard to believe that an institution like The Sun would show such a careless disregard for punctuation rules. If this is the case then it must show that the decline has begun! In a few years written English will be a confusing flow of unpunctuated nonsense.
Maybe there's another explanation for this headline. Some type of pun perhaps. If anyone can shed any light, I'd be pleased to hear it.
(I seem to complain a lot in this blog don't I? I sound like a gumpy old woman! I'll post something more positive next time...)
Saturday, 30 June 2007
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