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9.19.2009

The "its" is wrong

woodlands its sign

Cristina said the " its' " on this sign is "driving me crazy every day on my way to work", and when I saw the picture (which isn't completely clear because she took it with her cell phone), I just had to post it here.

Dear historical sign people: if it's possessive, it's supposed to be ITS (ie, no apostrophe)!

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2 Comments:

At 3:29 PM, Anonymous Silas said...

Uggh, that sticks out like a sore thumb!

 
At 7:21 PM, Blogger mj said...

Yeah--to people who know the difference! Otherwise people think there's nothing wrong :(

 

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