Greengrocers' Apostrophes Run Amuck
Nov. 30th, 2010 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Earlier tonight, Lands' End called me to offer a free shipping deal. As one does, I proceeded to save their number in my phone's address book, under "Lands' End". My phone assumed that was a person's name, and is now offering to show me the history of their calls to me, as "Lands''s History". That's ess, apostrophe, apostrophe, ess.
(Not that there's a graceful way to make a possessive out of a possessive, but the programmer clearly never expected this to happen...)
(Not that there's a graceful way to make a possessive out of a possessive, but the programmer clearly never expected this to happen...)