A cartoon strip about the unlikely friendship between Ollie (a Seagull) and Quentin (a Lugworm) by Piers Baker.
Presumably they were aiming for an apostrophe.
Good thinking Dave, I think you might be right, although I rarely see it with one nowadays.
Thing is, I'm enough of a pedant to think maybe "for goodness's sake" would be the truly accurate way of putting it (disregarding entirely how ungainly a mouthful that would be).
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Presumably they were aiming for an apostrophe.
Good thinking Dave, I think you might be right, although I rarely see it with one nowadays.
Thing is, I'm enough of a pedant to think maybe "for goodness's sake" would be the truly accurate way of putting it (disregarding entirely how ungainly a mouthful that would be).
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