Apostrophes

[hellywelly4]

The other day I sent my daughter some flowers from a very well known company. They were Felton time and are beautiful. However - inside the box was a leaflet with 3 headings. Rose's, Freesia's and another I can't remember. What a shame. They must have gone through several different places until they were packed. Did no-one spot the mistakes, or does no-one care any more?

[hellywelly4]

Oops - delivered. Where did Felton come from?

[Buenchico]

Free membership available here, HW4 😉
https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

[Buenchico]

Check out the 'Latest' and 'Archive' links at the foot of this page 😀
https://www.apostrophe.org.uk/examples

[THECORBYLOON]

I've seen Northant’s in a list of areas covered on thd side of a van and Google shows there is a Northant’s Truck And Bus in Corby 

[Impatiens]

Passport photo's at the local post office.

[douglas9401]

A local chippy does fish tea's

[gingejbee]

Personally, I can forgive misplaced apostrophes - if only people could get "their, there and they're" right and spell "definitely" correctly!

[Canary42]

Modern Britain is semi-literate.

Heinz started it years ago with beanz

[roopower]

While we're having a moan, your and you're 

[newmodarmy]

There are some good examples in the replies to this thread:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1859068.html

[10ClarionSt]

I wood of thort theres nuffink wrong wiv our Inglish. 

[Peter Pedant]

ecxuse me ....this should be titled apostrophe's

best one 1970, roadside  - - strawberry's local growed

[Peter Pedant]

and spell "definitely" correctly!

occurs in The Honour of Christopher Jeffries - where he (CJ)  proof corrects his own 'confession' - "definItely has no 'a' in it ".

This came up last week when I mentioned this to a PC taking my statement who didnt know what a brindle was, how to spell tousled, and did not think dishevelled was an adequate sub

 

[Hopkirk]

I was annoyed a while ago when autocorrect added an apostrophe in one of my answers.