Anonymous, The correct plural of A is A's. While I'm all for the demise of the "apostrope plural," in this case, it's needed so readers don't misconstued A's for the word As. Other examples: mind your p's and q's, dot your i's and cross your t's. Thankfully, DVDs, ICBMs, 1980s are increasingly becoming standard plurals.
I b'lieve that's the indefinite article.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's illustrating the letter A and there's one of these for every letter?
well, it explains why there are apples even though they don't come in bunches, but it doesn't explain the word "bunch" at all.
ReplyDeleteI would assume that it is a reference to the letter grade A, indicating that, in defiance of the bell curve, all of the students gets A's.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, Malachi is correct. It's a pun! You wouldn't get the pun without the quotation marks, so the marks are indeed necessary.
ReplyDelete"A group of good learners"
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"A group of good learners who earn A's"
If every student's getting an A, methinks teacher needs to make the work a little harder. It's also a pretty bad pun if half the people don't get it.
ReplyDeleteThough it's a pretty bad pun once you get it, too..
I agree the quotes are for the pun...but it's a lame pun, so they fail anyway.
ReplyDeleteI love how both Malachi and Jon pluralized the letter grades as "A's". And the beat goes on...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, The correct plural of A is A's. While I'm all for the demise of the "apostrope plural," in this case, it's needed so readers don't misconstued A's for the word As. Other examples: mind your p's and q's, dot your i's and cross your t's. Thankfully, DVDs, ICBMs, 1980s are increasingly becoming standard plurals.
ReplyDeleteLame pun or not, I'm glad those kids were learned good.
ReplyDeleteThey probably put the A in quotation marks because the class is doing a unit on the letter A. Jeez.
ReplyDeleteHATE TO DO THIS, but I think the "A" is for apple.
ReplyDeleteI still think it is lameola if you can't figure it out right away.