Just took DS to the fun fair

[PseudoBadger]

Signs on every ride (not handwritten, someone has paid for them): "Tokens only excepted" :o

[iklboo]

Tsk tsk. Surely it should have been token's only excepted!!

[PseudoBadger]

That would've been perfection.

[elQuintoConyo]

BRILLIANT

[noisytoys]

Surely it should be accepted?

[PseudoBadger]

[WMittens]

That would've been perfection.

Would of.

[PseudoBadger]

I just can't bring myself to go there Mittens

[MaggieMaggieMaggieMcGill]

If you can do 'they've' as an abbreviation of they have, why can you not do would've as an abbreviation of would have?
Or are those both things that would cause pedants much wailing and gnashing of teeth?

[PseudoBadger]

Erm. I think people have got confused.
Would've is correct. That's why I said it.
Excepted is not correct. That's why I mocked it.
The Grocer's apostrophe would've made the signs even worse; I'm guessing that's why icklboo said it.

[Selks]

Mittens -'would of' is totally wrong! It's 'would have', shortened to 'would've', as done by the OP.

(erm, unless you were joining in with the irony, Mittens...)

[PseudoBadger]

I hope so Selks....

[WMittens]

What's irony got to do with it? That just means 'like iron, of or pertaining to iron'.

[WMittens]

No, I can't be bothered trolling; yes it was irony.

[iklboo]

Token's would of been excepted.

[elQuintoConyo]

being excepted, surely?

But I think WMittens' post is the most unique