Comments on: Abuse’s of plural’s and apostrophe’s

By: henry higgins

henry higgins — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:26:56 +0000

I’ve been living in the UK for 5 years and been amazed by how many times I’ve seen an apostrophe used to pluralize a word. Strange.

Americans have plenty of bad grammar habits, but this one seems to be uniquely British.

By: Elevic Oernis

Elevic Oernis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:22:12 +0000

IF this were deliberate and humorous, it’s understandable.

But if it’s from sheer ignorance of punctuation rules, it’s quite annoying.

By: Robert M

Robert M — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:13:32 +0000

CD’s and DVD’s as plurals are correct. Apostrophe s can be used to form the plurals of abbreviations, acronyms, and letters/digits that are referred to as such (e.g. A’s.)

Most “style” guides don’t approve of that, but actual grammar references show it to be correct.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:18:18 +0000

The other thing that drives me mad is when you see all too frequently: CD’s, DVD’s.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:30:04 +0000

Every time I see stuff like this on signs I always have to wonder about who made the decision as to which person was going to write it?

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:56:03 +0000

You know, this irks me, too. I frequent this bar or, since this is a British site, I suppose I should say pub, and the manager always pluralizes by putting an ’s. It pisses me off. I always tell the bartender to change it and he does. The bartender also cracks jokes about what a moron the manager is because he also can’t spell any of the words that he may write on the board for that given day.

By: sars

sars — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:10:55 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but for some reason the LADIE’S sign above just makes me feel dirty. And what in the hell is a ’star buy’ anyways?

By: Heather Feuerhelm

Heather Feuerhelm — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:08:10 +0000

I feel your pain. And I like your blog. If one more police officer says “Myself and my partner…” I might scream.