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Apostrophe Abuse is listed in The Top 100 Creative Writing Blogs over at Best Colleges Online.

In actuality, the sign makers featured on this site do most of creative writing. 🙂

Here’s a news story (and accompanying mp3) about a Tennessee songwriter who penned a tune about the recent banning of the apostrophe by a city in the UK. I chuckled at the idea, but could barely make it through the song.

Stephen snapped a photo of this sign

…found in a women’s restroom at a local furniture store.
The correction had already been made…

I’m wondering why Stephen was in the women’s restroom. 😉

Rochelle snapped this picture at El Ranchito Restaurant in Newport Beach, California, and wonders:

What is the restroom possessing? Oh please don’t answer that.

Matt writes:

Apostrophe Abuse is especially endearing when it’s involved in phrases that attempt to be clever. I’ve always hated welcome mats, but this is a new breed of disgust.

I like that all three Amazon reviews mention the error.

The city where apostrophes arent welcome:

Its a little difficult to place sometimes, but if itd never been invented our sentences wouldnt be so easy to read and wed all get confused because we wouldnt know who owned anything.

But the apostrophe is obviously just too challenging for some.

Birmingham City Council has dropped possessive apostrophes from its road and street signs altogether – so St Paul’s Square becomes St Pauls, for example.

(Thanks to prescottstudent for sending this in!)

Simon writes:

I found this terrible abuse of the Apostrophe whilst driving out of the Westfield Shopping Centre in Parramatta, Sydney Australia.

Celeste writes:

I saw this t-shirt in the Shakespearean Gift Shop at Southern Utah University. The would have correct grammar usage except they completely left out the necessary apostrophe.

Maybe it’s printed in white ink. 😉 The lettering certainly seems to be spaced to receive that apostrophe!

Joe writes:

My friend and I caught these signs somewhere in western Arizona on our way from San Diego to Lake Havasu. The “Perfume – Bike’s – Basket’s” one is particularly confusing.

I do like the mix of plurals with and without apostrophes — I wonder what goes on in the head of the person making the sign…