This Citys Where Youll Glimpse Punctuations Future
According to British publication Mail Online, the city of Birmingham is dropping apostrophes from road and street signs. Apparently, there were already so many apostropheless signs -- signs for places like Kings Norton, Acocks Green and Druids Heath -- that theyve given up.
I dont yet know how Ill feel about this once Ive formed an opinion. But I do know one thing: Im 100% sure that they should elect Cormac McCarthy as mayor.
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June Casagrande was born in March and lives in a small house. She wrote a grammar/humor book called "Mortal Syntax" and, before that, one called "Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies." She sincerely hopes you buy a million copies of each.
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Well see.
Well see.
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No, Ill see.
Hah!
I was brought up in Acocks Green. Call me a cynic but I'm surprised that Birmingham City Council even knew what an apostrophe was in the first place! ;)
That's funny
I guess they knew just enough to decide they wanted to know no more!
Ah, a kindred spirit
who knows the City Council as well as any native! If you're not from that area, allow me to pronounce you an honorary Brummie, the term used to describe natives of Birmingham.
Just so you know, this does mean you have to adopt the accent and have an *incredibly* daft sense of humour. :)
I have a theory. Birmingham
I have a theory. Birmingham City Council is not throwing away the apostrophe because it is too expensive to create new street signs to include them... it is because they wish to forego the ensuing confusion that would be created by numerous work orders being sent out, by its very well-educated and highly sensible staff, instructing sign-writers to go and paint in aposofees, apostrifees, apostrofifees, astropofees, and astropofofiffyfees. Their next attack will be on 'hoyfens' and 'semmy cowlons,'
I am proud to be a fellow citizen of Birmingham... the city with the silliest council on the planet.
Wow
It's a small cyberworld after all!
For a brief time, I was a city hall reporter for Burbank, California. Now THAT city council was nuts.
Brummies' leaders may be dummies, or they may be pioneers! I'm too daft-humored to say. (That's right. Humored.)
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Nuts?
Ooh, do tell! Now I'm all curious!
Well ...
One time a crazy councilwoman who had been busted having an affair with some other married public figure wanted to know what the airport commission was doing. So she put on a trenchcoat and baseball cap and attended the meeting, certain no one would recognize her behind the clever disguise. There were all sorts of nutjobs and cheating spouses in and around city government. And it seemed that whenever cops were finding bodies stuffed into trunks of parked cars, it was within that city's borders. Just one nutty thing after another.