More deep thoughts

Maybe I’m picking nit, but there’s some really reckless wording on the bottom of this four-cup measuring cup. The writer didn’t bother to use any punctuation; there’s no period at the end of the “sentence,” if you can call it a sentence. Read it and tell me if the word USE is supposed to be used once or twice.


As I see it, it says “Use only for general household and photographic use,” which is pretty clever; the word use gets used twice and the words actually form a sentence with use used as both a noun and a verb even though it only appears once in the line. Actually you can’t call it a line since the words are in a circle. Do the rules of grammar change when you write in circles?

Or maybe it’s supposed to say, “For general household and photographic use only.” Yeah. That makes sense.

Never mind.