The link was supposed to be like this. :smack:
F_X
Whose Who?
Horton’s, of course.
Do it again and you’ll be the one who’s jusified. Word.
GAHHHHH
sorry to resurrect the thread but I have just seen the worst apostrophe crime EVER committed. Ever. And I’ve been tracking apostrophe crimes a long time.
There is a man whose name ends with “s” who was invited to a meeting I arranged.
His scheduler sent me not one but two e-mails: the first saying “Mr Down’s can attend” (which I wrote off to thoughtlessness) and the next saying “Mr Down’s won’t be attending after all.”
IT’S HIS FUCKING NAME !! He’s your BOSS !! Shouldn’t you …
oh, forget it. There’s no point.
Strongbad has a song about this:
I just realized I was an unwitting accomplice in apostrophe misuse.
I’m a grown woman, but for some reason my dad & his wife thought it would be cool this year to send out Christmas cards with a “family” picture on it. I played along, what the hell.
So I got a copy of the card last week. I happened to glance at it again yesterday:
Happy Holidays!
The Scout’s
Dad, scout & Dadwife
Dad! It’s a plural not an effing possessive!
:: bangs head on desk ::
Suddenly in the past years I developed a problem with “its” and “it’s”. It’s very strange, I’m pretty sure I never confused the two in school. Now I have to really pay attention. And I still fuck it up occasionally.
I wonder if any of our Doper descriptivists might show up for this threads so as to defend the incorrect (“incorrect” as a prescriptivist defines it in this situation) usage of apostrophes?
After all, if enough people use them incorrectly (the apostrophes, not the Dopers–I’m not sure I want to read how a Doper can be misused), it must be right. Right? 
I know Left Hand of Dorkness leans toward descriptivism, and I believe Dewey popped up in a thread recently with a comment in favor of it, so I’m interested in their views.
I always get a chuckle when I see, in just about every pizza place in the country, the menu listings for “Pizzas” and below it, “Pasta’s”.
Damn, you had it right with the pizza, then it all went to hell in a handbasket when you got to the pasta. What happened?
Be consistent!
dav01, I find that it’s usually “Pizza’s” but “Drinks”, “Chips” etc. It always seems to be words that end in a vowel that suck apostrophes out of the ether. Words that end in an “o” are especially bad… perhaps because people can’t decide whether to insert an “e”. So we get “Video’s”, “Tomato’s”, and occasionally even “Potato’es” :rolleyes:
At the Cloverleaf Bowling Alley in Independence Ohio, the restroom for male patrons is marked
MENS
Actually, I’ve seen that in many more establishments, but that bowling alley is the only place that I can say DEFINITELY still has it in place.