apostro-fail

Ok, I’m just gonna post this here because I don’t want to start a whole new blog for this right now.

Just a few days ago I was trying to explain to a friend of mine this pet peeve I have about people misusing apostrophes, specifically unnecessarily adding apostrophes to plural words or words that end in s. I’m not that anal really, it’s just this little quirk that annoys me. Actually I find it kind of hilarious. I mean, I’m not really one to be pointing fingers as it is, obviously my grammar and punctuation aren’t beyond reproach or anything. The thing is I know how to do it right, I’m just too lazy to bother. Or chalk it up to artistic license. Whatever.

Since I’ve been in New Zealand though, I’ve noticed TONS of examples of this particular mistake. Just everywhere – menus, signs, billboards, magazines, you name it. I don’t wanna start any sh!t now, I’m not saying it’s a cultural thing, hell I don’t know. I’m just sayin’.

So I’m explaining this to my friend and trying to think of a good example, and my brain just totally craps out on me. I couldn’t remember one to save my life. So I joked that I would start a blog about it, and then completely forgot about it, of course. That is until just a minute ago when I was skimming through Meebo’s wiki, and this just leapt right out at me: