The holiday is commonly printed as Veteran’s Day or Veterans’ Day in calendars and advertisements. While these spellings are grammatically acceptable, the United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling. [Link]
The Auckland City library has a new webpage, and some lucky kid has his (or her) catalogue featured. I guess one doesn’t need to be an English major to build a website, but surely somebody in the library system would have checked the content before it was published?
I just came across this while completing an on-line survey for Ruby Tuesday:
Short story – someone “corrected” a UPS billboard at Grand Central Terminal by adding an unnecessary apostrophe.
I wrote about it on my own blog.
Remember the kid’s studio at http://www.apostropheabuse.com/2008/12/very-private-kindergarten.html ?
They have a new sign, but haven’t corrected the error!
