I corrected another sign

[DappledThings]

I went to my new GP. They had a sign in reception saying that "some criteria's of people are exempt from prescription charges".

Even with the 's removed it's still a horrible sentence but less obviously painful!

[S0upertrooper]

Well done. Congratulation's!

[Imfinehowareyou]

Thank's for doing that

[DappledThings]

Your all too nice

[DadDadDad]

But criteria is the plural of criterion and as you say the whole sentence is mangled.

Are they trying to say: "Some categories of people are exempt from prescription charges"? or "People who meet certain criteria are exempt from prescription charges"?

[DappledThings]

Both of those sentences would convey what they were trying to say, yes.

I'm not sure what annoyed me more, the attempt to pluralise a plural or the belief that to pluralise requires an apostrophe.

I'm going back a week today. Will see if it's been changed

[DadDadDad]

I'll wait for your post in a week's time along the lines of...

The GP has diagnosed a case of acute pedantry and prescribed a course of apostrophes to be taken after meal's

[EdgeOf17]

Erm OP, it's you're not your

People in glass houses and all that

[MrsXx4]

hahahahahaaaa!!! @EdgeOf17

[BreakfastAtSquiffanys]

It is The LAW that all pedants must subsequently make an error in their post!

[dundermiflin]

I thought the op was taking the piss with the 'your' thing.

[SharpieHorder]

Are the doors alarmed at that surgery?

[slovenlys]

The your was defiantly done on porpoise

[DadDadDad]

I thought it was obvious that OP was deliberately using "your" rather than "you're" in humorous response to the two previous posts that obviously jokingly misused apostrophes. (In my case, I put a after "meal's" earlier, just to prove I was joking).

[ErrolTheDragon]

It is The LAW that all pedants must subsequently make an error in their post!

Muphry's Law does often strike pedants, it's true.

[dudsville]

They're were several spoof typo posts.

[DappledThings]

Just to confirm "your" was definitely a joke as most have identified.

[glitterbiscuits]

As were all the apostrophe's.

[DappledThings]

Everyone should of realised everyone on this thread was being very pacific about there choices

[DappledThings]

They reprinted the sign and we have "criteria's" again.

I corrected it again.

[thricethebrindledcat]

Did they still miss out the apostrophe on charges?