In an advertising poster, for actual apples: (#1) and on a tongue-in-cheek sticker, reproducing a gloat: (#2) Both incorporate phonological reductions of casual speech — ’bout for about, d’ya  ([djǝ] or [ǰǝ]) for do you — and also one feature of “demotic American” (a collection of linguistic features widespread in working class speech): determiner them … Continue reading Gloating over them apples