Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Ill-Used Apostrophe

On a "For Rent" sign I saw today: the owner requested...

"No Pet's"

No pet's what? What are they not supposed to own if you rent this apartment?

4 comments:

gramk said...

Patty,
How about this one that we saw last weekend at an antique shop?

Kid's,
Do not play with knife's.

EEEEEKKKKK!
Mom K.

Kh. Patty said...

Wow. That hurts.

Quebecca said...

Patty, you could do an entire blog on misuse of its and it's...

I also hate grammar and spelling errors. I find them in the books I read for school all the time (which you wouldn't expect from academics...at least I haven't seen any in a peer-reviewed journal). I think I'm a little OCD.

Colonel K said...

I saw a good one on a menu today:

Join us on Sunday's for...

I don't even know how to go about trying to figure out how to make fun of it! Apostrophes on days of the week are the best.

Great blog Patty, love the idea.