FUCKING
APOSTROPHES
Simon Griffin
A hilarious, furious and profoundly
useful short guide to the most maddening
punctuation in English.
Apostrophes are an f'ing pain. The
rules about how to use them are complicated, and have
evolved haphazardly.
Originally written as advice by a
copywriter for designers - wont to insert and remove
apostrophes at will, for
visual effect - this is a light-hearted, pocket-sized guide to getting the
f'ing things right.
Simon Griffin lets off steam so
that we don't have to, showing precisely why 'Rhianna and J
ennifer's photos
were all over the internet' is quite different to 'Rhianna's and Jennifer's
photos' or what words apostrophes are replacing in sentences such as 'He'd
like you to buy him some
cocaine', or 'They've got it all on camera.'
Elegantly produced, this is the
perfect gift for any pedant, as well as an indispensable guide in all our
moments of grammar-related frustration.
WARNING: CONTAINS EXPLICIT
LANGUAGE!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simon Griffin is the
founder of copywriting agency Hyperbolic (www.thisishyperbolic.com) and
lives with his wife and two children in Leeds. He currently has no plans to
learn how to touch type and
can happily write whole paragraphs without
realising he's left caps lock on.
PUBLISHED: November 2016
IMPRINT: Icon
Books
NZRRP: $18.99
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Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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