Monthly Archives: August 2009

Grammatically speaking…

Grammar lesson du jour. Did not know this phenomenon was called the grocer’s apostrophe?

Apostrophe Catastrophes : CJR

We’ve all seen it and cringed: The sign advertising “Antique’s for Sale,” the one in the supermarket boasting about it’s “fresh cucumber’s,” or the sign on the neighbor’s house saying “Welcome to the Smith’s.” Few among us (or so we hope) don’t know that those are wrong.

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