Archive for February, 2007

Arkansans Quibble Over the Possessive ‘S’

Posted by ApostropheAbuse in Uncategorized on February 28, 2007

Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state’s name. That would be, he says, “Arkansas’s.”

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Butt’s Only

Posted by ApostropheAbuse in Uncategorized on February 1, 2007


Found outside a building where I work… it actually probably took them significant extra effort to add the apostrophe in, and it’s just so painfully wrong it makes me want to poke things in my eyes. On the plus side, “butt can” is fun to say.

Thanks, John!

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