Sorry no posts today, I had a full schedule. And when I had a moment to spare, I called my mom. Speaking of my mom, here's another one from my family at the tulip parade yesterday (family jumps the queue. Deal with it.) Meredith says, "they call her Bessie the rest of the year". Also, it's a giant cow. Come on, that's funny.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
giant cow, assumed name
Sorry no posts today, I had a full schedule. And when I had a moment to spare, I called my mom. Speaking of my mom, here's another one from my family at the tulip parade yesterday (family jumps the queue. Deal with it.) Meredith says, "they call her Bessie the rest of the year". Also, it's a giant cow. Come on, that's funny.
I think giant cows are scary.
ReplyDeleteI've seen many instances where people put quotation marks around the names of animals, and I just don't get it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe people figure the quoted name is just the name humans gave them, not their true animal name.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's standard in animal hospitals to do so. Love the rest of the site, though. Well, I "love" it.
ReplyDeleteSince we're nit-picking about punctuation here, I believe a period goes inside the quotation marks, such as, "They call her Bessie the rest of the year."
ReplyDeletethat's a whole lotta udder.
ReplyDeleteHa! I got turfed off a UK natural history forum for a post about Kate Humble's "Badger". For those of you in the US of A, Kate Humble is a well-known blonde and female UK TV presenter who fronts a lot of nature programmes and the word "badger" over here has some obscure sexual connotations which are hard to determine even with the whole internet at one's disposal! The (male) moderator ignored all the grammatical cues and read it as gross vulgarity. In fact the piece was based on the lady's own website and "Badger" is her dog's name. Doh! Quis custodiet...? But on the face of it a very good reason for putting pets' names in inverted commas.
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