Thank goodness there'll always be an England
On 3 October the Manchester Evening News reported that the Marks & Spencer department store apologized to a parent and refunded her money for baby pajamas with a picture of two giraffes under the label:
BABY GIRAFFE'S
Good show all around, I apostrophize. After all, what's the good of producing the language that dominates the world if nobody knows its most elementary rules?
1 comment:
I keep thinking about how startled the parent must have been to unwrap the PJs and see how long the neck and legs were (although I had assumed heretofore that giraffes slept in the altogether). And, by the way, nice use of "its."
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