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Apostrophe campaign ends due to 'ignorance and laziness'
(Thanks to lot's of people)
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Apostrophe campaign ends due to 'ignorance and laziness'
(Thanks to lot's of people)
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Their's anarchy in the street's
Posted by: James | December 02, 2019 at 10:28 AM
Mr. Language Person knows the only correct use of the apostrophe: to notify the reader that an "s" is coming up in the word.
P.S. I miss Mr. Language Person.
Posted by: ChrisinVa | December 02, 2019 at 10:29 AM
Whats the problem?
Posted by: Ralph | December 02, 2019 at 10:29 AM
I think "The Grammar Police" once opened for "The Whom."
Posted by: Jim | December 02, 2019 at 10:57 AM
Its a conspiracy!
Posted by: Rudolph | December 02, 2019 at 11:00 AM
Correct use of the apostrophe was never a problem in the Old West. Wyatt Earp never said,"put your hands in the air--uh, should that be put your hands' in the air?" No,he said, "oh shoot!"
Those were simpler times.
Posted by: Le Petomane | December 02, 2019 at 11:44 AM
Dang, I didn't know there was such a campaign. It deserves to continue. The guy's right, about both the apostrophe and the comma.
If he's not going to continue this campaign, maybe he can start a new one regarding "loose" and "lose".
Note the correct use of the apostrophe in the contractions above.
Posted by: Rod Nunley | December 02, 2019 at 11:53 AM
I agree with Rod and also want to add a campaign for "affect" and "effect".
Posted by: maryqos | December 02, 2019 at 12:07 PM
This reminds me of the tagline of The Straight Dope (www.straightdope.com): "Fighting ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)."
I want a campaign to bring back the Oxford comma.
Posted by: wanderer2575 | December 02, 2019 at 12:12 PM
Whomst'd've made this decision will burn in heck.
Posted by: Qaz | December 02, 2019 at 12:35 PM
Let's not forget "there" & "their".
Posted by: ImNotDave | December 02, 2019 at 01:35 PM
And "they're," Dave.
Is it a surprise in the current political climate that "we've already lost" the war over the apostrophe? Trump can barely speak in whole sentences.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | December 02, 2019 at 01:43 PM
Y'all're all correct.
Posted by: MOTW | December 02, 2019 at 03:42 PM
I've notified my daughter Margaret. You all have been warned!
And MOTW (apparently in Texas) rocks!
Posted by: Fred P | December 02, 2019 at 03:49 PM
And how about outlawing the use of “exponentially” by non-mathematicians.
Posted by: Snowman | December 02, 2019 at 04:11 PM
Add "reign" and "rein" to the list of confused word pairs. Proofreaders don't know the difference either.
Posted by: coscolo | December 02, 2019 at 06:01 PM
Years ago, in a land not far, far away lived a people whose job it was to go charging into a written work to keep the writer from embarrassing themselves in print.
They were, I believe, called "copyeditors."
Sadly, they are now an endangered species.
Posted by: Le Petomane | December 02, 2019 at 06:34 PM
Lately I've seen a lot of people getting the words "waste" and "waist" mixed up. As in: Good food is hard to waist but it will go to your waste. It drive's me crazy!
Posted by: nursecindy | December 02, 2019 at 07:49 PM
nursecindy--Hang in there! I once had a psychiatrist tell me I didn't need to be driven crazy. I was perfectly capable of getting there on my own.
Posted by: Le Petomane | December 02, 2019 at 08:01 PM
Usually when 96 year-old men moan ..."nowadays I hardly get anything" - it has nothing to do with grammar and everything to do with grandma.
Posted by: NurseBernie | December 03, 2019 at 05:16 PM
The shop near my house selling “Taco’s” closed down recently as well.
The panda says no!
Posted by: Pirateboy | December 03, 2019 at 06:23 PM