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Show GENIUS OF THE SIGN BOARD After All, What Is the Small Matter of an Apostrophe "Between Friends"? Some years ago I watched a slgn-puinting slgn-puinting genius while he put the final artistries on a masterpiece: "Ladle's and Gent's Restaurant" "Pardon my inqulsitlveness," said I, "but why do you put the apostrophe before the s?" "The which before the what?" he questioned courteously. "The little curly-tailed mark after that e and that t Some call It an apostrophe." "Posserphe, Is It? Well, young feller, fel-ler, I seen and I make that dingus a hundred times, nnd I never knew that It had a nnme. Posserphe! That's a good one; I'll have to spring it on the gnng. Some pulnters always paint It after the s, but I always put It before the s, because I think that it looks more artistic there. Otherwise, It don't make no difference where you put it." De Lavul Monthly. |