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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 sign-painting sign-painting genius while he put the final artistries on a masterpiece: "Ladie's and Gent's Restaurant." 'Tardon my Inquisitiveness," 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." 'Tosserphe, is it? Well, young feller, fel-ler, I seen and I make that dingus a hundred times, and I never knew that It had a name. Fosserphe! That's a good one; I'll have to spring it on the gang. Some painters alwavs paint It after the s, but I always put it before the s, because I think that it looks n-ore artistic there. Otherwise, It don't make no difference where you put it." De Laval Monthly. |