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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
You're not the only one. 
Things that obviously should be symmetrical but aren't (one of a row of square items slightly out of line, for instance), mini-blinds with the concave side toward the room, slightly open drawers, and, yes, those broadcaster logos, all drive me nuts. And lower-case forum logos (also greengrocers' apostrophes, misused commas, inconsistent spacing, and that thing people do with semicolons). |
What do you think of words like phone and paper, as in the shortened versions of telephone and newspaper?
'phone and 'paper would be the correct use of apostrophes for those words, but I find them really annoying. Greengrocers would be another — 'grocers.