What's Going On?
How can people not know where to put apostrophes? Twice in as many days, I've seen ain't written with the apostrophe at the end, instead of where the o from not would be. I realize both could be typos, but to see one right after the other makes me worry. Lil' is another one that I see a lot (the apostrophe should go where the t's were, not where the already silent e was, because that's as dumb as Punk'd). And I've even seen a mention of the year 87'. (Apparently this is short for the year 8719, whereas '87 is short for 1987.) Also, there was a website where someone kept using ya' as a slurring of you. I could never figure out what he thought the apostrophe replaced.
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Also posted on grammarpolice.