The Queen's Copy

Sentynel: LOL LOL

Sentynel: Facebook post:

Sentynel: "Whoever has the Queen's copy of 'The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese literature', do you still need it? Can I borrow it please??"

Sentynel: Comment:

Sentynel: "For a moment I thought you were just casually borrowing books from Her Majesty."

Maryam: So what are they referring to by 'the Queen'?

Sentynel: The Queen's College, Oxford.

Maryam: Aha.

Sentynel: Correct positioning of the apostrophe there is VERY IMPORTANT, mostly because a) there's a Queens' College in Cambridge, and b) it often got missed off completely.

Sentynel: There were a couple of people with a profitable side-business in sewing the apostrophe onto university hoodies and stuff that missed it out.

Sentynel: But then "The Queen's College" gets shortened to just "Queen's", and tada, grammatical ambiguity.