From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2700 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2005 13:52:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 2610 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2005 13:52:51 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:52:51 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DhpGG-0006Yl-Ly for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:45:57 +0200 Received: from 81.171.158.114 ([81.171.158.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:45:56 +0200 Received: from lionelbuk by 81.171.158.114 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:45:56 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: "Lionel B" Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK! Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <94BF3137C62D3E4CAED7E97F876585F09DAA2E@pauex2ku08-udp4122671udf.agere.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00411.txt.bz2 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > > And don't even get me started > about general misuse of quotation marks. :-) Actually, may I get you started? In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe": Fresh Tomato's, £1.50/kg > P.S. WatchOutForFallingHippos Or, at my local corner shop: Falling Hippo's - this week only! - 12p/kg Now that's some bang for your buck. -- Lionel B