Punctuation Fail

2008-11-26 07:22:20 by esproul

I love the Fail Blog, as my wife can attest. I particularly like the grammar- and spelling-related entries, like this one. I'd also add one of my own pet peeves, apostrophes for noun plurals. This goes far beyond the classic "it's/its" that many people get wrong. I'm talking about using apostrophes to make all kinds of other things plural, like Oreo's or Wednesday's. Where do people get this idea? I never saw it when I was in high school (at least, as far as I can remember.) I first heard of it during a news writing course in college and ever since I notice it everywhere.