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January 16, 2005
The Perils of Bad Typography

Anals

Get that designer a curly quote! The unfortunate sign at right hangs above a restaurant on Broadway around 102nd Street, a few blocks from my apartment. The restaurant is called Ana’s, but the long, noncurly apostrophe looks a lot like a lower-case L—which spells the plural of a word you tend to see more often in porn film titles than above restaurants.

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