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Dear viewers, I apologize for interrupting our programme but I have a breaking punctuation rant.
The little guy up there is one of the most misused and abused creatures that have ever lived on any keyboard on earth.
“Photo’s from Cairo!”, an expat blog proudly announces.
“To all my children’s teacher’s” an angry parent prepares to vituperate.
“Cabbage- it’s proven benefits” (sadly, none of which seem to include a better grasp on punctuation)
Have mercy.
The apostrophe is not just a bizarre little comma that goes before an S like soup before the main or clouds before the rain. Nope. It lives its life to show a possessive or a missing letter.
Sorry to be such a pedantic pain in the ‘S but this really get’s on my nerve’s:)!
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Thi’s make’s me ‘smile 🙂
Ha ha! I’m plea’sed I brought a ‘smile to you lip’s:)
I am with you on this. Abused and misused apostrophes make me twitch. I’m a teacher and have often considered correcting menus and other signage with my teachery red pen of doom 🙂
If only we could take a red pen to the world wide web:)
To misuse your apostrophes once can be regarded as a misfortune, to misuse them regularly is carelessness:)
It was interesting to notice that people whose first language is English misuse and abuse the little a as much as (or in fact more) than people who have the legitimate excuse of not knowing how to use it.