Augusta's long local nightmare is NOT over. While I thought getting Augusta Parks and Recreation to place an apostrophe in "Souths" on the 23 year old Newman Tennis Center Sign so it went from this:
to this:
would end "Apostrophe-gate," I was wrong!
A week ago I went over to the Newman Tennis Center to take pictures of my new apostrophe and decided to take a stroll through the tennis center to the clubhouse. Much to my display, I saw this sign inside the tennis center:
That's right! The missing apostrophe from the Newman Tennis Center sign on Wrightsboro Road had been hiding inside the tennis center on this sign all along! Don't see it? Check it out in the word "It's" on the third line of the sign. As most people (hopefully) learn in 6th grade, "it's" is a contraction for "it is," meaning this line on the sign reads, "Public Tennis At It Is Best." Argh!
So now I've got to call Parks and Recreation again and ask them to scrape off this embarrassing apostrophe from their sign. I'm just left wondering, what city employee wrote the copy for these signs and did they attend a Richmond County school? And so, our long local grammar nightmare continues . . .
Friday, September 11, 2009
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