SO, DOES VETERANS DAY HAVE A FUCKING APOSTROPHE OR WHAT?: ”
If you’re like me, you’ve spent autumn’s chilly Saturdays sipping wine by the fire and thinking, ‘Where the heck does the apostrophe go in the upcoming Veterans Day, and should there be one at all?'”
BARBARA WALLRAFF: Vets get thanks, no apostrophe: “As Veterans’ Day approaches, I see it written ‘Veteran’s Day’ everywhere. Is Nov. 11 the day of a veteran or of veterans in general?”
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Ad spells a headache for college: “South Devon College in Torquay placed the ad in a local paper, basing its campaign on the phrase ‘It’s not too late’, repeated over 23 lines. However, the ad left out an apostrophe, resulting in the word ‘its’ being used instead”
Check out today’s Mallard Fillmore for a rhyming rant on apostrophe abuse.
National Punctuation Day is August 22nd.
The Oregonian and the Tahlequah Daily Press ran articles referencing this wonderous new holiday. I’m going to try to make a three-day weekend out of it, but I’m not sure my employer would go for it.
Kansas City Star | 07/31/2005 | Language decay? Consider these example’s: During the seventh-inning stretch, I glanced up at the jumbo screen in center field and beheld this perplexing phrase: “Fireworks Friday’s.â€
On Robson Street in Vancouver, BC. Apostrophe mistakes seem so much worse when they’re on professionally printed signs.
Seen on a public phone in Santa Cruz.
Computerworld New Zealand: New Zealand’s IT Information Source: “Grocer’s apostrophe strikes online
It’s an open secret that while many arty types can’t do maths, many nerdy types can’t spell. It seems some geeks are grammatically-challenged, too, if the Government’s education website is anything to go by.”