Apostrophe-tastrophy

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Image778_2 Amy Driscoll, in this piece in the Miami Herald on the Seminar, pointed out that theImage778_3 ‘Writers Lounge’ sign was missing its appropriate apostrophe, and that someone had added it by hand. As technical director of the Seminar, I must take full responsibility for the gaffe. I’d placed an order for some signage over the phone to my graphic guy-always a mistake-and while the sign is lovely, the grammar was wrong, My bad, mea culpa, etc. But the mystery remains: who fixed it? ADDENDUM: So the corrector was Billy Collins, which Nan pointed out in a comment, as well as the info being in Driscoll's story, which I clearly didn't read all the way through. I just look worse and worse in this one.

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Mystery solved: Billy Collins! (It's in Amy's story, actually.) If you're going to be corrected, you might as well be corrected by a poet laureate ...

As the designer in question, let me be the first to say what an honor it is to be corrected by a poet laureate. Usually it is an angry client, not a distinguished man of letters whom I hear from, so although this is still embarrassing, I take some comfort in that. Sorry for the error.

Greg Needham

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