The apostrophe abuse thread

I'm a recovering Apostrophe abuser. I apologise to those offended by my many years of abuse. I appreciate it's only a little punctuation mark and really can't defend itself.

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Anyway, thought I'd start a thread for Green Tea, Leeza and the other Apohstrophe [s]nazis[/s] pedants to highlight examples and explain why they are wrong so as to educate the world to their correct usage.

Example's please.

Whats wrong with my apostrophe's?

I like the no-nonsense German response: "Greengrocer's Apostrophe" translates as "Deppenapostroph" or "Idiotenapostroph" – the "idiot's apostrophe".

May I post a picture of my German co-worker who uses the Saxon genetive in German? Drives me up the wall's, she does.

how about this one?

I was always annoyed with the Dutch habit of making plurals with apostrophes. Baby's means babies in Dutch. Okay. But annoying.

IMO, the worst is "who's", instead of whose. I see this mistake made often by teachers!

At a new job I once had, where you're much like a little slave with a computer terminal, one of my 5 "managers" sent an email around with

hey guy's,
... blah blah

and I just thought "aw, fuck." Now I gotta have this muppet as a boss, and pretend to be nice, knowing full well if you can't get your own native language correct, you're probably not the brightest bulb in the pack.

to me, people with poor grammar and spelling lose a lot of intellectual credibility.

Funnily enough I think people who get hung up about spelling and grammar are probably closed minded and need to follow rules all the time. Though maybe we're all just stupid?

I'm with horseshoe7 on this one

Why have you capitalised the word apostrophe?

@sarabyrd. What's a Saxon genetive?

It's a misspelt Saxon genitive, otherwise known as the English possessive.

Different thread that one...

I'm not sure that many of the abuses cited in that one site are actually of the same variety as possessives and such. Many of those have words that historically had different spellings. German has changed quite a bit in the past hundred or so years. For instance they've lost most of their 'th' spellings (their becoming tier) and many plurals have been reduced by removing the final 'e'.

So Nudel'n could be referencing a missing 'e' from nudelen.

Please don't dis the dyslexics.

@ Kay - Thanks for the correction, that error was not intentional.