4616: Garfield Hit's the High Note's
| Garfield Hit's the High Note's |
 Made by: Nyperold |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
The original strip said "cat's", an example of what is often called a "greengrocers' apostrophe", which is an apostrophe put before the "s" in non-possessive plurals. The title pokes fun at the practice, even going so far as to put an apostrophe before the "s" that ends the verb. The strip edit, however, fixes it.
The original strip had the eighth note tail-side-up, when its position would, by convention, have it pointing down and extended all the way to the staff, as in the edit. It also lacked ledger lines except for the one it was actually sitting on, so this edit added them in. The transcript has the note, derived from its apparent position, as well as the frequency of such a note.
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Original strip: 1991-08-22.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield is standing on a fence}
Garfield: Here's a note only cats can hear
{Garfield sings an eighth note [quaver in British English -Ed] set on an extremely high ledger line, indicating a D9. The paper now has a spiderweb pattern, indicating that it has a resonance frequency of about 8372.018 Hz}
Garfield: It's so high it can shatter paper
