Seen in Waitrose - oh dear

For goodness sake, I hate incorrect apostrophes and told staff at supermarket once that advertised ..vegatable's...yes misspelt as well. I know this wasn't an apostrophe incident but once watched a sign writer proudly working on a new shop front painting the word professional with two f and one s. I drove past and pointed it out and he changed it but seriously? Quite ironic.

shame on you Waitrose

The irony is that it is for teachers!

Yes shame on you Waitrose
Now if it was Aldi then ....

Oh deary me!

The irony is that it was written by someone taught by a teacher.

Whitewave?

Oh dear! But I wonder how many people noticed.

I too doubt if many teachers would have noticed. My daughter was concerned when, yet again, 6 year old DG's teacher had given out homework with spelling and grammar mistakes. She spoke to the head teacher (again) when she was told that this must be excused as the teacher was dyslexic! Whilst I sympathise with anybody who has this condition surely this teacher should at the very least get her work checked before handing it out to our youngsters.

From my cousin in Ireland : The sign writer painting the sign outside a pub called " Johnny Roache's" actually put "Johnny , Roache's" - too late to be changed, the pub is now locally called, " Johnny Comma Roache's".

I'm not too bothered about incorrect use of apostrophes, as long as it isn't misleading. What I really hate is the lack of punctuation or sparse use. You have to work far too hard to understand what's been written. So annoying.

Apostrophes ARE punctuation, Lindajane.

Written on a birthday card to DH - " best wishes's and many happy return's". The rogue apostrophe strikes again!

While gransnetters are in agreement that this is inexcusable, you can bet that on sites with all ages there will be someone saying "So what?". I wonder how much it is a generational thing to be a pedant, though I hope not. I remain hopeful for a "10 items or fewer" sign in all supermarkets.

Whilst not a rogue apostrophe in sight, I did have to point out to the manager of local M&S that the handwritten 'Que here' sign was incorrect!

Golly. Pedants of the world "untie".
I used to hate going to the ophthalmologist because she had a sign suggesting one was checked for "macula" degeneration. It made me cringe...

Spelling mistakes are not an issue for me. Changes in how words are now pronounced ie split up,are for me irritating to say the least. Culprits are TV presenters
The word Duchess is pronounced Duch Ess.
Watching is now Wat Ching.Touching is now Touch Ing
This must be very confusing for those wishing to learn our language and more so when it comes to spelling.
Any one else have this niggle?

If your schooling has been of the "so what" variety, you are unlikely to end up as a pedant.
Most of us oldies were taught that it was important to get these things right and the habit stuck with us.

Moobox you and I are one of a kind.

Slightly off thread but how do we all pronounce FebR(!!!)uary?

Where's that man who goes round painting out unnecessary apostrophes when you need him?

Or should that be apostrophe's?

May have said this before but my Dad used to send my school reports back to headmaster with spelling corrected. Good grammar school too. I bet his name was mud in the staff room.

I still pronounce it FebUary and Wednesday as Wedn'sday.

I seems to me to be a distinctly southern English thing with an extra R in words, that doesn't occur in the Scots version of English, but is perhaps present in some forms of American English, or whatever we want to call it. Is it not really a Thames Valley thing with the extra r?

And yes, I do remember that in the first Harry Potter film it is Hagrid who pronounces withdrawal as "withdrawral" even although he usually sounds as if he came from Rutherglen!

They missed off the word 'Birthday'


Febrooairy

The Apostrophe Man live's in Bristol
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My Hero!