(Fixed!) — Within an hour of being posted here @ Apostrophe Abuse, RC has fixed the two errors shown below.
http://www.rcspcs.com/blog.html
It’s a real shame when people who claim to be communication professionals can’t get it right.
Even in England, they abuse the apostrophes.
I love it when donuts are responsible and take ownership of themselves.
This is a spudnut shop in Amarillo, Texas. Good donuts. The green tea iced donuts are fantastic.
But everytime I see “donut’s” it drives me nuts.
Ad from the 9/3 Washington Post, page C3. I wish if they were going to abuse apostrophes, they would do it consistently and give one to pergolas, too.
At the cost of TV advertising you’d think an ad agency would check the punctuation used in a 30-second prime time advertisement. I had to pause the news to rush for my camera to get this one!
I saw this in Berkeley, CA, just across the street from the university. I figure this might be some sort of secret code for math majors. The plural of a plural; man4, perhaps.
I saw this aggregation of astoundingly abundant aggravating additional apostrophes last year on a British pub in Tenerife, Spain.
QMF's Lindsay sent in this "instant classic" her friend took in Downtown Berkeley.
In case you can't read it, here's the text in all its glory:
HEY LADIE'S
I HATE YOUR
FREAKING
GUT'S
FAKEASS HO'S
Selfish Mr. Walk In only cares about what’s his.
(Thanks, Laura!)
