The Misplaced Possessive Apostrophe's Nightmare Sighting of the Week.

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[spyderfyngers]

Is that Comic Sans, too?

[sensaes]

Mister Thought certainly hope's so. Its what he specifically order'ed for his' signs font's.

[helice]

Ah! That's enough to have had my late English teacher tearing his hair out.
BTW something is winging its way via the post to you. If the Gargoyles get it first you'll have to fight Hugo et al to get it back.

[sensaes]

My follicular absence receives yet another explanation! ;o)

I'll try to keep the lads suitably distracted. (And thank you!)

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By now I'm in danger of getting it more often wrong in German. Apostrophes are more common in English and I've been writing relatively much in English in recent years. So I caught myself a couple of times using them too generously in German. :)

[sensaes]

It's when they're used to denote a plural, rather than a contraction (of two words) that I find utterly baffling. A good example of a very common error is when a decade is being referenced, e.g. "the 80's". Even as a contraction of "the 1980s", the position of the apostrophe makes no sense at all!