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Questions about punctuation, pickleball, and pennies
Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Goodwyns Furniture Ltd. SOFA’S CHAIR’S RECLINER’S BED’S Ben calls this signage “The Four Aprostrophe’s of the Apocalypse” and informs me that “the establishment is now permanently closed, so punctuation matters!” I call such absurd punctuation “prepostrophes.” Hey, there’s