The Largest of the Duluth Apostrophe’s

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1. Ramos on May 30, 2013 at 3:00 pm

   I think the theory is that if we encourage and cultivate the usage of hip apostrophe’s in our signage, wealthy Creatives will pour into town and revitalize our economy. They talked about it at the charrette.

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2. jessige on May 30, 2013 at 3:19 pm

   I’ll give you fifty cents if you change your name to Ramo’s.

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3. emmadogs on May 30, 2013 at 3:32 pm

   Hahaha Jessige!!!

   I’ll throw in 50 cent’s on this too.

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4. Ramos on May 30, 2013 at 6:04 pm

   Make it fifty dollar’s and we’ll talk.

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5. spy1 on May 30, 2013 at 8:52 pm

   I still think many of these mistakes are based in a fear of a word looking too ethnic without the apostrophe. Condos.

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6. spy1 on May 30, 2013 at 9:28 pm

   Maybe someone should take matters into their own hands:
   https://apple.copydesk.org/2013/05/30/why-the-state-of-oregon-needs-a-copy-editor/

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7. BadCat! on May 31, 2013 at 9:21 am

   Holy hell! How did we miss that?!?

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8. FranceneStarr on May 31, 2013 at 12:39 pm

   Someone could go up on that roof and fix that…not me tho—some young and frisky English major on a mission.

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9. Ramos on May 31, 2013 at 1:19 pm

   Francene, please refrain from writing “tho” in the future. If the correct spelling eludes you, just remember that “tho” = “ugh.”

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10. FranceneStarr on May 31, 2013 at 4:26 pm

    @Ramos — well, excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! Just a lazy typist.

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11. FranceneStarr on May 31, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    I could not resist: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tho

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12. Ramos on May 31, 2013 at 5:26 pm

    Civilization is crumbling before my very eyes.

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13. FranceneStarr on May 31, 2013 at 8:15 pm

    I know — at least we’re not bored!

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14. vicarious on June 1, 2013 at 7:23 am

    Can we also refrain from addressing each other as “@Ramos”, etc. It is utterly senseless.

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15. vicarious on June 1, 2013 at 7:24 am

    Question mark.

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16. in.dog.neato on June 1, 2013 at 1:18 pm

    @?, vicarious?

    et tu?

    @et tu?

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17. Barrett Chase on June 1, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    #grammar

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18. Ramos on June 1, 2013 at 2:36 pm

    I just thought of something. This sign may be grammatically correct if they’re attempting to hiply and creatively advertise condoms.

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19. Ramos on June 1, 2013 at 2:37 pm

    Or condors. I, for one, could use an office condor.

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20. vicarious on June 1, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    WTF? Lol.

    I have an unhealthy hatred for “Internet shorthand,” BTW. Totes obvs, right?

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21. K. Praslowicz on November 25, 2013 at 9:21 am

    I noticed this morning that this sign has now gone the way of Black Water and Sir Ben’s and has been fixed. RIP little misused apostrophe.

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