I hate it, absolutely HATE it, when an opening quotation mark is used instead of the apostrophe in abbreviated dates ('66, '75, etc.). You see it in newspaper and magazine and flyer advertisements all the time. I know that the mistake is a combination of ignorance of punctuation and word-processing and printing technology that can't always recognize that an apostrophe is called for. But that's why we still have humans -- to correct technology's failings.
I hate it, absolutely HATE it, when an opening quotation mark is used instead of the apostrophe in abbreviated dates ('66, '75, etc.). You see it in newspaper and magazine and flyer advertisements all the time. I know that the mistake is a combination of ignorance of punctuation and word-processing and printing technology that can't always recognize that an apostrophe is called for. But that's why we still have humans -- to correct technology's failings.
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