Saturday, 11 January 2014

This sign are ungrammatical

London Borough of Barnet, write out 100 times: 'A singular noun such as "supplier" needs a singular verb such as "is".' 

Oh brother!

OK, so it isn't a sign, but I just couldn't ignore it. This is an illustration from an Amazon page advertising a Kindle edition of a translation of a famous Russian novel. The publisher, e-artnow Editions, has managed to insert an apostrophe that is not only uncalled-for but is also the wrong way round. Whatever happened to proofreaders?