The second in my occasional (and highly cathartic) series of instances of GBH against the English language also comes from Derby - in fact, it's almost next-door to poor apostrophe-less Harry from the previous post. This time the culprit is a pub.
Tom, my partner in crime and life as well as the unlucky witness of most of my punctuation-related outbursts, spotted and photographed this one.
When I was a child at infant school we used to sing a song which went "Who built the ark? Noah, Noah! Who built the ark? Brother Noah built the ark!"
Well, he may have built it, but apparently he doesn't own it. It should read
Noah's Ark - no possessive apostrophe in sight. Maybe it got washed away in the flood.
Bad luck, Noah.
Maybe when we used to sing 'Noah! Noah!' it actually meant there were two Noahs ;-)
ReplyDeleteBut wouldn't it then be Noahs' Ark? ;-)
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