So happy to find this goal listed here....
9 months ago
Where do I begin? The greengrocer’s apostrophe drives me absolutely bonkers. Didn’t we all learn in the first grade that to form a plural, you add either “s” or “es”? Yes, we did. In school we didn’t add apostrophes to form plurals. So what, then, is causing people to do this, when the correct way typically requires less effort (fewer characters)?
I recently saw a paragraph, online, in which the writer used the following as nouns: look’s, idea’s, test’s, profile’s, initial’s, clothe’s, turn-on’s, thing’s, animal’s, and kid’s.
In. One. Paragraph.
I’m seeing this more and more frequently, and it’s depressing me. Seriously. Why are people doing this, and how can it be stopped? :-)
