Shoe Pedant
Hero or villain…………..?
With his trusty paintbrush, Stefan Gatward has been flying the flag for the English language.
Dressed in a collar, tie and well-polished shoes, the former soldier has been fixing missed apostrophes on grammatically incorrect street signs in Tunbridge Wells.
Thanks to his dedication, St Johns Close has become St John’s Close, and supermarkets which have a ‘five items or less’ queue have been blacklisted by him until they provide a queue for people with ‘five items or fewer’.
However, the 62-year-old has been branded a vandal and a graffiti artist for his efforts by some neighbours.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207301/Punctuation-hero-branded-vandal-inserting-apostrophes-street-signs.html?ITO=1490
Good for him…I say hero (I’m a pedant.)
What say you?
dave…you may be a (self proclaimed) charmer,but watching Big Brother denies you the right to comment.
Besides,you spelled superfluous wrong!
I´m afraid I have mixed views here.
I´m with him on the possessive comma. Nothing worse than a misplaced possessive comma.
But I´m still pondering his stance on the “five items or less” sign…
*ponder ponder*
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