Thank You's Note Cards

Laura sends in this sign she spotted at her local Target that makes it look like...

the new artist Thank You has come out with his own set of note cards.

More Tattoo's

Leann sends in this sign for a tattoo parlor in her home town:

Comcast too fast for proofreading

Shannon sent in this piece of mail she received from Comcast that features two errant apostrophes:

...sort of makes me want to switch cable companies.

I'll find a tutor elsewhere, thanks...

Harp sends in this flyer, "seen on a community noticeboard at the local supermarket":

Giggles laughs at proper apostrophe usage!

Librarian/Grammar Geek Jennifer writes:

Teach your baby to misuse apostrophes! It's never to early to start!

This was haunting me at a Target store in Ann Arbor. I kept seeing it every time I went there (which is, um, a lot). Finally I took a picture of it and then hid it behind some tax prep software.

Neglect at Best Buy in Troy, MI

Ryan reminds us to

please, think of the childrens.

Mmmm... Nacho's...

Helen writes:

A double whammy of apostrophes and unnecessary quotation marks!
At least someone has made an attempt to fix said blackboard.

Is that an apostrophe or a line pointing to the price? ;)

Office Condo's

Steve writes:

This sign has been posted down the street from me in Novato, California for well over a year. Every time I walk past it I want to bring some maroon paint and fix it. As an aside, I also see a trend in the use of initial capitals in ad copy such as this one. Save initial caps for titles, please!

...although one could at least make the argument that the signmaker was using the apostrophe to mark the omission of "minium".

Food-related odds and ends

Here are some food-related submissions that I've been sitting on for a while:

Spotted in Salinas, CA:

(Thanks, Becky!)

Spotted at the Kansas State Fair:

(Thanks, Chandra!)

Seen via Google Adsense:

(Thanks, Tim!)

Finally, this bonus photo, which has absolutely nothing to do with apostrophe abuse:

(Thanks, Greg!)

All American's Need Health Care

Holly sent in this picture she found on Yahoo! news:


Maybe we should start striking for better education.

New domain - ApostropheAbuse.com

Thanks to the gracious Sharilyn Horne, who transferred her ownership of the domain name, this blog can now be accessed via ApostropheAbuse.com. Those of you who subscribe to the RSS feed may get reposts from the configuration change.

Three Pizza's

Sean sent in the screenshot below from the Big John's Pizza website, along with this comment:

3 pizzas please. Hold the apostrophes.

MasterPark's Mistake

This apostrophe error appears on all the MasterPark shuttle vans at SeaTac airport:

Your watching The Learning Channel

Ouch!

Margaret sent in this screen grab from a show broadcast on The Learning Channel:

These apostrophes should also be redacted

A reader sent in this fax with two counts of abuse...

Front page mistake

Jen sent in this front page newspaper headline from a small paper in southern Maryland:


...I'm guessing the scores dipped on the English portion of the test.

50% discount includes bonus apostrophe

Joya pulled over to snap this photo of a self-storage place right off the 101 in Los Angeles:

More Pasta's

Linda sent in this example of abuse found at Craig O's Pizza in Austin, TX:

Paycheck: It's bad...

11 minutes into the movie Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, Ben's character looks at this newspaper headline. I should have shut it off at that point and watched something more entertaining, like C-SPAN2.

Ladie's room on Carnival Cruise Ship

Amanda sent in this gem:

This sign directs you to the "Ladie's Room" on the Carnival Celebration ship.

Two car ads, two apostrophe mistakes

John sends these two ads seen on the Fox News site:



(Thanks, John!)

Gordon win's and English loses

Mindy B. writes:

I have had this shirt for about 6 or 7 years and it has made me insane since the day I bought it at California Speedway.

...batteries? ...film?

Diane submitted this photo:

My kids and I drive to Colorado every summer to see family there. We never get tired of laughing at this sign at the Arizona border. We always wonder, "Bring your camera's WHAT?"