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Isn’t That Special’s?

Sign outside a gas station/mini mart.

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(Thanks, Barney Rubble!)

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Major League mess-up

The Cleveland Indians have been running a promotion with Subway restaurants this season. Apparently the “Cleveland curse” has spread to proofreaders as well.

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(Thanks, kanissa!)

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Writer’s dont ha’ve to be perfect

This is an ad currently running on the Issaquah Press website… for a writing conference, no less, where you can “attend classes focused on different aspects of the craft”.

Well, apparently not ALL aspects of the craft.

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AA: Perhaps they only want one writer?

(Thanks, David!)

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It is reliance on coal that China is reducing.

Ad seen on CNN’s site for multibillion dollar Emerson Electric.

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(Thanks, jennysimonds!)

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Your/You’re Confusion: Getting warmer

Does an absence of apostrophe constitute abuse?
I reckon they probably had it locked away in a basement somewhere torturing it with pithy pronouns and the occasional angry adjective.

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(Thanks, Cole Henley!)

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Abused in so many ways

Paul abuses apostrophes and much more as he attempts to do it “are self’s” and save money.

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(Thanks, Jeffrey!)

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Two car ads, two apostrophe mistakes

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

(Thanks, John!)

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