This Christmas we played the once-popular 1970s board game Sorry! with our children who, I have to say, enjoyed it very much. The strapline on the box says “the best ever childrens game which combines fun, simplicity, and rapid movement”…and poor punctuation, it would seem.
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I’m guessing the grammatical mistake was that it should say childrens’. Maybe you were thinking children’s too, I can’t tell. This seems a little too debatable to me, as childrens appears to be widely accepted. You grammarians may disagree.
#1 by ahref on December 29, 2011 - 1:17 am
I’m guessing the grammatical mistake was that it should say childrens’. Maybe you were thinking children’s too, I can’t tell. This seems a little too debatable to me, as childrens appears to be widely accepted. You grammarians may disagree.
#2 by Wyvie on December 30, 2011 - 9:18 am
Aha, I see the Oxford comma! I have to fight against tech authors to use that at work.