Driving from Chicago to Milwaukee, a friend and I saw a huge sign for the “Mars Cheese Castle” in Kenosha. Since I’m an astronomer and he’s a geologist, we had to get off the freeway and go in.
We were very disappointed to see that the T-shirts inside said “Mar’s Cheese Castle”. Other logowear said “Mars’ Cheese Castle”, though. Plus some things in there did say “Mars” with no apostrophe.
In the end, we still bought T-shirts and fully-dressed brats…
No, really, mess with signs in Niagara Falls and random passersby will threaten to stomp you? That’s actually kinda neat. More people should take such pride in being semiliterate.
There’s a grocery store in Santo Domingo called “One’al”. I think they were trying for “O’Neal” (as in Shaquille).
Lots of gratuitous apostrophes all over the place, from faux possessives like “D’Garcia” to greengrocer-style plurals - in a language where apostrophes are not used to denote contractions, possessives or anything else for that matter.
Wait, what? If John Robert runs a studio, that’s absolutely correct, isn’t it? Or was the guy’s name written as “John Roberts” elsewhere?
My maiden name ended in an “s”, and you wouldn’t believe how many people couldn’t figure out how to possessify it. I got Jone’s, Joneses, Jones’es, Jones’s (which I hear is now correct, although my software alerts it and I was raised when it was wrong, so I refuse to accept it), very rarely would anyone write it Jones’.
If you read the quotes as marking an actual quote, (as might be said by a perky service person), rather than serving as scare-quotes, then it could as easily be genuine.
Though seriously, any business called Chik-Fil-A has pretty much given up on grammar and spelling anyway.