Whoop’S Apostrophe . . . ! #6: The Difference Between Knowing Your Shit and Knowing You’Re Shit!

By Murray L. Peters

I said Id stopped, but here it is#6!

Such a horrible life, isnt it? Walking by these word errors everywhere! Well, trying to walk/drive past them for me!

I cant stop spotting them, though, and still I get off the bus / walk back / or drive to photograph them, record them for posterity.

No one cares anymore, do they?! Bar me! Surely some governmental edict has to be passed to make sure that such horrors are against the law. Common law should deal with these oh-so-common mistakes!

Give me the job (Whoops Apostrophe Terminator?) of going into these shops and reading the riot act? Every time that I have mentioned an error, I talk to people who just dont care and also look at me as if I were crazy! Maybe I am.

Mistakes that I have been able to fix on my own are far too few. I have done it the odd time, on the sly, via chalk or by me rubbing out the mistaken parts of Ap. / Sp. errors (Buy WA #1#6). Sometimes they get it right even on their ownthere is one example inside!

This is the last one. Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 17, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504994507

Murray L. Peters

(P. S. - Murray L. Peters is also the intrepid writer of a series of novels entitled ‘BOYLE-BREATH’… where his eponymous teacher-alien-hero attempts to right the wrongs of our little planet – from bullying to murder, Social Workers to Vampires, Political Correctness to Health & Safety! Oh yes, by the power of his FARTS? (Breath, smells, pongs & perfumes…). B-Bs #1, #2, #3 all out there; #4 (The Prequel) & #5 (the Last) ‘in medias res’!!! ? “…charming and thought provoking…innovative…ingenious plot…” Jill Allan (Clarion). “BREATHTAKING” – The Zeronian Bugle

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/11/2015

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TABLE OF

CONTENTS

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1a Wrong, But Fixed!

Chapter 1b Wrong, then Worse!!

Chapter 2 Apostrophes…

Chapter 3 Apostrophes AND Spelling…

Chapter 4 One Wrong, One Right…

Chapter 5 Spelling.

Chapter 6 Foreign…

Chapter 7 Glasgow!

Chapter 8 Just Weird

Chapter 9 Subtitles

Chapter 10 Transport

Chapter 11 Village Café Bistro

Chapter 12 Final Image

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my favourite English ‘teacher’ – my Aunt Celia; and to my favourite teachers, my Friday Night muckers - Tom Barrie, Willie Reid and Jackie McClemonts.

It’s for Edith, my wife, also, always! x

INTRODUCTION

WHOOP’S APOSTROPHE…! #6

THE DIFFERENCE