Read-up on the correct (usage)…… of all you’re favorite punctuation mark’s; at The National Punctuation: Day website!?
The apostrophe page reprints one of our favorite Bob the Angry Flower comics, so check it out.
Copy-editing is a thing of the past at the Associated Press, I guess, or maybe they’re just excited because CNN is a competitor.
Found online here.
An advertisement on the back of a bus. Apparently the inventors of the Education Pays Program missed that part of English class.
I knew that the cupcake trend had pretty much jumped the shark when this local eatery started carrying them . . . but I was still pretty upset by this egregious abuse of apostrophe’s 😉
We were at 6 Flags New England last weekend buying the required junk food when I spotted this abuse.
(What’s the deal with Fried Oreo’s?)
(Thanks, SD!)
This is the display of a bespoke cake supplier in West St., Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK. Why do all the plurals suffer apostrophe abuse EXCEPT the words “needs” and “occasions” (bottom line)? You’ve gotta love the inconsistency !
September’s page of the Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog wall calendar brings us headlines with two missing apostrophes, an extra “e”, and — bonus! — a comma in place of a colon. This town needs a punctuation hero.
I suppose I should forgive a gas station milkshake machine for its poor grammar.
