The 100-year-old painting is 100 years old. Note my hyphen use pre-painting, and the absence of hyphens post-painting. The homepage of Yahoo! Canada got it wrong yesterday. I wonder if the Yahoo! writer was intentionally going for humor with the headline Woman rips a hole in Picasso. It's awfully similar to the threat, I'm going to rip you a new hole. I think if the a got moved to between in and Picasso, it'd be less tasteless. It wasn't Picasso who suffered the ripped hole, after all, it was a Picasso painting.
Walz Apostrophe Catastrophe
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