August 14: Possessed by despair over Cherries’ own goal
TO me, the football season always seems to start one month too early because the cricket season is still in full swing with hot temperatures very likely in early August (Tom Richmond, The Yorkshire Post, August 8).
The first day of the new season has also brought with it the feral apostrophe that has been the subject of recent correspondence.
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Hide AdBournemouth FC (The Cherries) were promoted to the Premier League and a TV reporter was interviewing fans on the seafront before their first match.
The female proprietor of a café admitted that she had foolishly promised to change the name of her cafe in the unlikely event of Bournemouth achieving promotion, which they did.
The camera showed a shot of her underneath the changed name which is now “Cherrie’s” which is grammatically impossible (unless, of course, her name is Cherrie, which it isn’t).
She is obviously as unaware of the aberrant apostrophe as her sign writer seems to be.
I am still trying to think of a single word that will combine the two words “catastrophe” and “apostrophe”.