Actual plurals are often tricky to get right, so why bother? Just stick to the single form and use an apostrophe – that’ll be fine. However, in this example, at least the apostrophe abuse is consistent in its application. As Kat points out, it’s the classic Capitalisation Of Every Single Word Just Because It’s A Sign that irritates.

He should be careful, I hear she kicks like a mule.

Also, writing the whole invitation in inconsistent Title Case makes it hard to read. I particularly hate the following “sentence”.

And put, Aprils Name on it.

Shall we count the errors together? Fragment, unnecessary capitalisation, unnecessary comma, missing possessive apostrophe; I make that four errors in six words. Not bad!

Thanks to Alison for pointing this photo out to us. For more wedding-related fun, have a rummage around wedinator.com.

Daily Mail: Apostrophe Fail, originally uploaded by Clive Andrews.

Do they not know that the misuse of apostrophes may lead to cancer?

While I’m bashing that horrid rag, I’d like to show you this video from the wonderful Dan and Dan.

Further to a previous post about rampant quotation mark abuse at a Nottingham furniture shop, GrammarBlog‘s Nottingham correspondent Samantha Moran has spotted another case of WRONG at the very same shop.

Seen on the ever brilliant Failblog.

My finding of this picture (yep, that was a gerund correctly preceded by the genitive pronoun, thanks for noticing)… my finding of this picture coincided with the resurgence in popularity of our original post dedicated to Think Before you Ink those whose eagerness to get a tattoo outweighs their attention to detail.

Indefinate, originally uploaded by Codename Geoff.

I posted a while back about my tendency to misspell definitely if I’m in a careless sort of mood. So I almost feel for this guy.

Almost.

Glourious [sic].

You would be forgiven for thinking an establishment called Seamus O’donnells (lower case ‘d’, no apostrophe -’s') would be likely to regard itself an Irish-themed pub first and foremost, but in this case it sounds more like a catwalk timewarp of people in flared trousers, pedal pushers, horn-rimmed glasses and exaggerated shoulder pads.

This sign from the same pub at least remembers to include the ‘-ed’, but still can’t get it right. Oh dear.

Thank you to vitch for adding this to our Flickr group.

Thanks to Samantha Moran for resisting the temptation to do ironic “air quotes” with her fingers and instead choosing to take these photos.

And what on earth are those arrows meant to mean? Baffling.