Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A is for Apostrophe

Aaron sent in this scan

...from the book Little Einsteins Animal Alphabet that my daughter got for her birthday. This part of the book has not just one, but two apostrophe mistakes!

10 comments:

Jered said...

I see one mistake (rattlesnakes'), but what's the 2nd one?

Jered said...

Never mind. The two its were close enough together that I read it too quickly. I see the 2nd its now.

a frog named purl said...

there are s'o many things' wrong with thi's picture.

Rebecca Pettigrew said...

it has three apostrophe mistakes. Both its should be it's. And... Rattlesnakes' should be rattlesnake's (the "a" before denotes a singular, not plural) and that's an educational book... awesome

Anonymous said...

Rebecca -- the 1st "its" is correct.

Rhonda said...

Einstein? Well, I guess he always said that he didn't keep information in his brain that he could research. How sad that this is an "educational" piece.

Tom said...

And surely a rattlesnake's bite is venomous rather than poisonous?

Anonymous said...

The first its is correct. The two mistakes are the second its and the apostrophe in rattlesnakes.

Anonymous said...

Its not smart to shake maraca's when a rattlesnakes trying to stay a'sleep.

Mark Godfrey said...

It's sad to see mistakes in children's books.