Links and visuals illustrating an orthographic pet peeve.
In Newcastle, Oklahoma
(Thanks, Brent!)
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By Readers Like You – September 12, 2011
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Technically, however, this can be considered correct: the apostrophe is indicating the omission of the ‘e’ in ‘goes.’ But I agree that it is apostrophe abuse because the author’s intent is fairly obvious.
What if the name of the person is Go (an Asian name) and it’s a clever play on words?
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Technically, however, this can be considered correct: the apostrophe is indicating the omission of the ‘e’ in ‘goes.’ But I agree that it is apostrophe abuse because the author’s intent is fairly obvious.
What if the name of the person is Go (an Asian name) and it’s a clever play on words?