Who remembers these crisps having a stray apostrophe in the 70s/80s?
I recall the company (KP) having to give an explanation for their aberrant apostrophe - was it on Watchdog or That's Life or something? They claimed it was so people didn't call them Dis-coss. So why not Discoes? Inelegant, but surely better...
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UnquietDad · 12/05/2008 11:17
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