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On ITV1 now - 2001 George Clooney movie "Oceans Eleven" [sic]

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champagnesupernova · 23/03/2008 23:10

Grrr! what have they done with the apostrophe?!

And another thing..in the ad break, small print for Activia yoghurt advising me to eat it everyday and small print for Abbey telling me that there maybe problems with my investment (or something similar)!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?!

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MegBusset · 23/03/2008 23:15

Don't get me started.

The worst film offender has got to be Two Weeks Notice -- it just hurts my brain to even type it.

Also there is a new Vodafone advert that I've seen on buses and in shops, saying 'Reign in your spending'

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UnquietDad · 23/03/2008 23:51

Lynne Truss actually went round graffitiing (now there's a present continuous for the pedants to debate) the poster for "Two Weeks [sic] Notice." Sorry, I am incapable of writing it without either the apostrophe or the [sic].

Other word "conflations" to have been noted over the last 5 or so years:

anymore
nevermind

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