(Thanks, Bill!)

Rhonda saw this case of apostrophe neglect

… while searching through a newspaper’s collection of tattoo photos. The person who submitted this tat was very happy to have it. I was surprised at the lack of punctuation.

Thomas writes about the Your/You’re confusion on this quality sign:

I was wavering between sending this to you guys or to failblog.org, but I figured it’s more a terrible abuse of apostrophes (and a wonderful example of irony) than a strict FAIL. I saw this in my hometown on the way into work on Monday morning.

It looks like rather than obscuring the lower-right leg of the X to make the Y in QUALITY, they should have broken it off to make an apostrophe for YOU’RE. Perhaps they were also out of the letter E.

Wow; any guesses on this one?

(Thanks, Justin!)

William writes:

I took this apostrophe photo at The Girls Strawberry U-pick in Boynton Beach, Florida, which also happened to have a fine lowercase L:
http://lowercasel.blogspot.com/2009/01/plantation-hesitation.html

Spotted this at Anthony’s Homeport in Ballard:

Seen at Coho Cafe in Issaquah, WA:

Also noted is the “Jack ‘N Cider”, which I suppose could be correct if they meant to convey “Jack [Daniels] [i]n Cider”… 🙂

Lauren writes:

I was down on Freemont Street the other night with some friends of mine and noticed this sign… guess the souvenir is selling t-shirts and alcohol?

Emily saw this

…kids’ t-shirt which reads “I eat dirt, lot’s and lot’s of dirt.” This kind of thing is child abuse.

Vincent spotted this one in Corrimal, NSW, Australia: