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This has given me great enjoyment this week. It comes from January 7 on my Eats, Shoots & Leaves calendar.
"Carved in stone in a Florida shopping mall is the quotation from Euripides, "Judge a tree from it's fruit: not the leaves", and it is all too easy to imagine the stone-mason dithering momentarily over that monumental apostrophe, mallet in hand, chisel poised. Can an apostrophe ever be wrong, he asks himself, then answers "Nah!" and decisively strikes home and the chips fly out."
Please. No dithering over punctuation.
"Carved in stone in a Florida shopping mall is the quotation from Euripides, "Judge a tree from it's fruit: not the leaves", and it is all too easy to imagine the stone-mason dithering momentarily over that monumental apostrophe, mallet in hand, chisel poised. Can an apostrophe ever be wrong, he asks himself, then answers "Nah!" and decisively strikes home and the chips fly out."
Please. No dithering over punctuation.