Perfecting his feeding technique.
Glide just above the water.
Oh so gently, lose a little more altitude.
Drop that extended lower mandible into the water, just barely disturbing the surface but enough to prospect for minnows.
Nope. Still don’t have it.
Becky.
Don’t read this post until you’ve tried to figure out the answer of the previous post.
There is no apostrophe in St Andrews because…
Wait for it….
Because St Andrews was named before the invention of the apostrophe!
St Andrews 11th century-ish
The apostrophe early 16th Century
In response to a previous post about language, McKee challenged me to explain why the name St Andrews (in Scotland), even though it’s a possessive noun, doesn’t include an apostrophe.
Any ideas?
I failed the challenge.
I’ll answer the puzzler in a separate post, so I don’t interfere with your puzzling.
