Daily Archives: July 16th, 2008

Apostrofly

I discovered a new phenomenon this week–the apostrofly:
“…the discovery of the apostrofly, first recorded in this column in the Guardian on September 30 2002. The apostrofly, as I noted at the time, is an insect which lands at random on the printed page depositing an apostrophe wherever it alights.”
Mayes coined this word to describe how [...]