A Visit with Charles Dicken's

[dougo]

I saw this in a flyer for the Billerica Holiday Festival. Seriously, how does this even happen? Why didn't they put an apostrophe in "Charle's" too?

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[inthatoneway.livejournal.com]

And it's at the library and cultural center. Thank you for a full day's 'supply of irony!

[kazmat.livejournal.com]

One wonders how good of a library that can possibly be...

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Nope, I don't mind if you post it to grammar_nazis's Journal. Is Ms. Nazis a friend of yours?

[prusik.livejournal.com]

Actually, the misplaced punctuation is the second quotation mark. Apparently, this Charles Dicken fellow (whoever he may be) has his own Bennett Library & Cultural Center. (Presumably, there you can read the works of Charles Dickens.)

[twistjusty.livejournal.com]

So that's where the apostrophe in my name went to. I told every company who had me in its database to restore the apostrophe it dropped from my surname. The apostrophes must have run amok!

[mattsnaps.livejournal.com]

Because Charle's name ends in a vowel. The rules of euphony dictate no apostrophe there. Words ending in consonant's are different of course.

[mattsnaps.livejournal.com]

OMG I could barely type that. My fingers kept going back and fixing things of their own volition.