Tuesday, August 23, 2005

An irritating lapse

A new sign has appeared on our coffee machine which reads

Please keep this area tidy. Thank - you.


Oooooh! What an irritating hyphen! OK, maybe I'm being pedantic but it irritates me every time I get a drink. I'm tempted to follow Lynne Truss' example and get rid of it - but as the sign has been carefully laminated it won't be an easy task. Any suggestions?

Rant over, I'll get back to work now...

1 comment:

Tim Mosedale said...

A new sign saying "Please keep this sign tidy and clear away your hyphens when you've finished playing with them"?