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Shorty
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Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
The apostrophe has three uses:
1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate plurals of letters
Just FYI: NONE OF THE FOLLOWING FIT THOSE RULES!! (Yes, they are all excerpts from the SAME email!)
We have plan's for Friday night.
I ordered so many nice dress's for the cruise.
His parent's are straight out of hell.
What color shirt's match with green pants?
We are supposed to have dinner with the McSmith's on Saturday.
---------- the McSmith's WHAT?!? Dog? Hat? Banana hammock?!?!?
MY EYESSSSSS!!!!!
Message edited 4/11/2007 12:51:52 PM.
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
*editor cringing*
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| Posted 4/11/07 12:51 PM |
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eroxgirl
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
OMG I'm truly in love with you.
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| Posted 4/11/07 12:52 PM |
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MsMBV
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
OMG Shorty this is one of my biggest pet peeves (plural, not possesive ).
DebG had a thread about this recently too.....
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MrsERod
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
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Shorty
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
My ILs have a sign on the front of the house:
The McSmith's
They drew the apostrophe in with gold pen because it "didn't look right without it".
W
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MrsERod
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
My ILs have a sign on the front of the house:
The McSmith's
They drew the apostrophe in with gold pen because it "didn't look right without it".
W
T
F
SHUT UP! 
we'll have to do a drive-by next time we gtg! 
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| Posted 4/11/07 12:55 PM |
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MsMBV
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
My ILs have a sign on the front of the house:
The McSmith's
They drew the apostrophe in with gold pen because it "didn't look right without it".
W
T
F
OMG I almost peed
If I were you (or if that were my ILs) I would write in "House" after their last name, just to make it gramatically correct again
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| Posted 4/11/07 12:56 PM |
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TreAnt427
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
My ILs have a sign on the front of the house:
The McSmith's
They drew the apostrophe in with gold pen because it "didn't look right without it".
W
T
F
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| Posted 4/11/07 12:56 PM |
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leighla
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by MsMBV
If I were you (or if that were my ILs) I would write in "House" after their last name, just to make it gramatically correct again
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!!
We just had a memo go out from our HR Generalist team:
"Make sure to use your left over vacation day's before June 30th."
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| Posted 4/11/07 12:58 PM |
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MsMBV
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by leighla
Posted by MsMBV
If I were you (or if that were my ILs) I would write in "House" after their last name, just to make it gramatically correct again
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!!
We just had a memo go out from our HR Generalist team:
"Make sure to use your left over vacation day's before June 30th."
oh dear lawd its an epidemic
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| Posted 4/11/07 1:00 PM |
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Shorty
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by MsMBV
Posted by Shorty
My ILs have a sign on the front of the house:
The McSmith's
They drew the apostrophe in with gold pen because it "didn't look right without it".
W
T
F
OMG I almost peed
If I were you (or if that were my ILs) I would write in "House" after their last name, just to make it gramatically correct again
I once left a post-it that said "grammatically incorrect home - leave yo english at the do."
The sign read: The McSmith's Grammatically Incorrect Home. Leave yo english at the do.
bwaaahaahhahaahahaha
No one else thought it was funny.
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MrsERod
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
I once left a post-it that said "grammatically incorrect home - leave yo english at the do."
The sign read: The McSmith's Grammatically Incorrect Home. Leave yo english at the do.
bwaaahaahhahaahahaha
No one else thought it was funny.
i guess they KNEW it was you who left the note - the post-it gave you away!
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| Posted 4/11/07 1:03 PM |
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Shorty
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by MrsERod
i guess they KNEW it was you who left the note - the post-it gave you away!
I love's me some post-it's.
They had cute little snowmen on them! 
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MrsERod
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
I love's me some post-it's.
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| Posted 4/11/07 1:10 PM |
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GioiaMia
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
My cousin bought her nephew a little sign for his room.
It said:
"Nicholas's room"
poor kid - we still call him Nichol-@ss - even though his mom was crafty enough to cover up the second "s".
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| Posted 4/11/07 1:11 PM |
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
I love it when people talk grammar!
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MrsERod
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Tilde
My cousin bought her nephew a little sign for his room.
It said:
"Nicholas's room"
poor kid - we still call him Nichol-@ss - even though his mom was crafty enough to cover up the second "s".
poor kid is right!
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| Posted 4/11/07 1:15 PM |
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Phyl
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
Posted by MsMBV
Posted by Shorty
My ILs have a sign on the front of the house:
The McSmith's
They drew the apostrophe in with gold pen because it "didn't look right without it".
W
T
F
OMG I almost peed
If I were you (or if that were my ILs) I would write in "House" after their last name, just to make it gramatically correct again
I once left a post-it that said "grammatically incorrect home - leave yo english at the do."
The sign read: The McSmith's Grammatically Incorrect Home. Leave yo english at the do.
bwaaahaahhahaahahaha
No one else thought it was funny.
I thought if was very funny and something I would have done to the MC Smith's too!
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SweetTooth
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Tilde
My cousin bought her nephew a little sign for his room.
It said:
"Nicholas's room"
poor kid - we still call him Nichol-@ss - even though his mom was crafty enough to cover up the second "s".
"Nicholas's" is actually correct.
according to the Chicago Manual of Style.
The missuse of the apostrophe drives me batty as well.
Message edited 4/11/2007 1:30:19 PM.
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Jax430
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
ARGH!!! Misused apostrophes drive me nuts!!!
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MrsPJB2007
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
wat u got's a problm wits' peeple's grammur n' there punktuation's or sumthing?
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Anniegrl
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
I'm tech editing document's at work right now ( ), so don't even get me started on the misuse of apostrophes!!!
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MsMBV
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Re: Ode to the Inappropriate Apostrophe
Posted by Shorty
I once left a post-it that said "grammatically incorrect home - leave yo english at the do."
The sign read: The McSmith's Grammatically Incorrect Home. Leave yo english at the do.
bwaaahaahhahaahahaha
No one else thought it was funny.
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| Posted 4/11/07 1:57 PM |
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