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'Grammar Vigilante' Secretly Corrects Bristol Street Signs (irishtimes.com)

Posted by msmash on from the silent-guardian dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: A self-confessed "grammar vigilante" has been secretly correcting bad punctuation on street signs and shop fronts in Bristol for more than a decade. The anonymous crusader carries out his work in the dead of night using the "Apostrophiser" -- a long-handled tool he created to reach the highest signs. The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that correcting rogue apostrophes is his speciality.

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  1. Re:Bansky? by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the BBC that correcting rogue apostrophes is his speciality."

    There's an old British expression, the Greengrocer's Apostrophe, for apostrophes wrongly used to indicate plurals. The term comes from seeing signs like BEET'S 5 PENCE at farmers' markets.