A grammatical error made to last
I was in London yesterday for an Extraordinary General Meeting of Wikimedia UK, the Wikimedia chapter covering the United Kingdom, held at the British Library.
It was during my visit that I became aware of the existence of the Crown Estate Paving Commission or CEPC as I walked from Paddington to the library along Marylebone Road. The CEPC is a statutory body first set up by act of Parliament in 1813 to manage and maintain parts Crown land around Regent’s Park and Regent’s Street.
One the CEPC’s railings fronting Marylebone Road, I came across the sign below.
A brass plate featuring a superfluous or greengrocer’s apostrophe: whoever worded that made up for a lack of education by sheer class. 