Thursday, 14 October 2021

A single, missing apostrophe may cost this Aussie thousands of dollars

Those apostrophes can be expensive. Somehow, this brings Calvin Trillin to mind. The Nation used to pay him a flat rate of $100 per poem, so he wrote the shortest possible poems in order to make the most money per word.

source https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/topic/18996-a-single-missing-apostrophe-may-cost-this-aussie-thousands-of-dollars/?do=findComment&comment=173554

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