How to use the apostrophe.

Posted on 24 March 2010 | 8 Comments

Question: What’s the best way to use the apostrophe?

Answer: Randomly. At least according to one store on my local high street.

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8 responses to “How to use the apostrophe.”

  1. Tony Burnett | 24 March 2010 at 12:30 pm | Reply

    This is one of my favourite topics. So I thought I’d share this link with you all:

    http://www.apostropheabuse.com/

  2. Jooli Atkins | 24 March 2010 at 12:40 pm | Reply

    Love it! Particularly like this one http://bit.ly/d7Pdij

    What amazes me is how many of these are printed professionally. My grandfather was a printer and he saw part of his role to assist his customers. I don’t believe he would ever have printed something so wrong.

    I can’t see it getting any better any time soo’n!

  3. donaldhtaylor | 24 March 2010 at 12:41 pm | Reply

    Thank you, Tony. And hats off to John Richards at the Apostrophe Protection Society:

    http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

  4. Rina | 29 March 2010 at 1:30 pm | Reply

    This is cute! Thanks for sharing, made me laugh.

  5. Angela | 13 May 2010 at 12:23 pm | Reply

    I bet this comment really wind’s you up then, Don!

    Sorry, couldn’t resist.

  6. cathbore | 24 August 2010 at 7:28 pm | Reply

    I’m a punctuation and grammar nazi, but this made me chuckle 😉

  7. Alex Taylor - TJ Taylor | 26 August 2010 at 7:35 pm | Reply

    Rampant apostrophes is also one of my pet peeve’s (!).
    There’s an excellent little guide for businesses available from Emphasis at http://www.writing-skills.com that’s worth a subtle email or two to any offenders.

  8. Ruben Viars | 17 November 2010 at 10:07 am | Reply

    Possibly the top blog that I read this year

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