Thomas Pynchon was originally going to call his book Gravity Rainbows, but a confused greengrocer pedant informed him that the correct pluralization is Gravity's Rainbow.

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Glyph

@darius thank's I hate it

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thisisaaronland

@darius see also: aaronland.info/weblog/2012/03/

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Soh Kam Yung

@darius That pedant didn't get to Vernor Vinge before he wrote "Rainbows End". 🙂

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows

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