Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for October 09, 2024

I once read about a curio shop that got a new sign and it was hung upside down accidentally. His foot traffic doubled, mostly drawing people who were warning him of it, so he kept it that way.

Anything for attention…

Prepostrophe

A transport café in west London apostrophised all the plural’s on their menu board…

That’s a new one here in the US. Meaning a greasy spoon?

Me’nu.

Truck stops in America usually have cheaper gas, better food and other conveniences like clean restrooms (usually)

My glasses’ lense’s fogged.

Spec’Ails would be catchy.

At least they didn’t mix/swap the D with the A. Then they’d have “TOAD’ Y’S . SPEC’ IALS” (and if there had been a misspelling, it could have been “SPEC’ IES”

That’s just pigeon English.

I always steered away from the produce stands with “fresh” (in quotation marks) fruit.

Humorist Dave Barry once wrote that the purpose of an apostrophe in a hand-written sign was to let you know that an “s” was coming next.

Those are Oxford apostrophes.

for whatever reason, japanese love apostrophes and misuse them liberally to keep us endlessly entertained. they like to append “let’s” on whatever word seems appropriate at the time (with !! for emphasis). “let’s english!!”, for example. there’s a car named “that’s” (pronounced “zatsu” – they also love letters that they can’t pronounce and in this particular marketing fail, the name rhymes with the word for “sloppy”). and world-famous brand komatsu inexplicably separates the T and S with an apostrophe in its logo… ☺