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 | | From: | Matthew Winn | | Subject: | Re: Display problem | | Date: | Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:33:47 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:41:13 -0000, Brian L Johnson wrote:
> Matthew Winn wrote:
> > On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 14:16:15 -0000, Brian L Johnson
> > wrote:
> >> But... "Lands' End"? Who are the Lands, and why have they all met a
> >> common fate?
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> > As it says on the site...
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> > ...a lot of people ask why the apostrophe in Lands' End is in the
> > wrong place. There have been some silly explanations along the way,
> > but the truth is, it was a mistake.
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> > It was a typo in our first printed piece, and we couldn't afford to
> > reprint and correct it.
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> Ah! I wonder when they put that explanation up?
Probably when they discovered that only 10% of their mail was orders
and 90% was "Do you know that your apostrophe is in the wrong place?"
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Matthew Winn
[If replying by email remove the "r" from "urk"]
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