Ashamed now to admit it, but just for the pure challenge of it, my daughter and I once drove from Minneapolis, MN to Ames. IA singing this song for each mile marker on the trip. We commemorated every marker, and we did, again for the challenge of it, sustain the “take one down and pass it arouuuuuuuuuuuuuund” to the next mile marker. Every mile. From Minneapolis to 13th St, Ames, IA. It’s got to be a record of some kind.
I’m sorry, there’s no such word in the dictionary as “petifors.” What you mean is petit fours… pronounced petifors. Little bite-sized cakes, delicately frosted and decorated.
You’ll find a few instances of petifors online, but that’s because people can’t spell and don’t take the trouble to use dictionaries.
Like this comic. But I don’t like the line written under it: “see today’s strip in it’s full-sized glory…” SIGH! I just don’t understand why it’s hard for people to learn that “it” is the ONLY word that breaks the general rule of forming a possessive with ‘s.
“It’s” with apostrophe means IT IS.
“Its” without apostrophe means belonging to it. That way you can tell the difference between “it is” and “belonging to it” in written form.
Any editor worth their paycheck should know this and be ready to catch such obvious errors.
Erm… shouldn’t it be the donuts that are delicious, not the box?