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Today I saw the most heinous apostrophe crime ever.

136 replies

TaggieCampbellBlack · 03/11/2012 17:44

Ladie's shoe's

Men's shoe's

Boy's shoe's

Girl's shoe's

Bag's

Sale item's

There were more but my eye's couldn't take it so I had to leave.

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NickNacks · 03/11/2012 17:46

New's paper's anyone?

BooyhooRemembering · 03/11/2012 17:47

YABU for not asing an AIBU question.

BooyhooRemembering · 03/11/2012 17:48

sorry, should have added a Grin on that.

TaggieCampbellBlack · 03/11/2012 17:48

AIBU to be outrage'd?

Or offende'd

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HecatePhosphorus · 03/11/2012 17:48

Grin eye's -v funny.

Don't blame you, I would have been forced to complain

Blush
edam · 03/11/2012 17:49

Someone will be along in a moment to claim it doesn't matter and it's perfectly understandable... but they will be wrong.

TaggieCampbellBlack · 03/11/2012 17:49

There's someone at work who signs her name 'Deb's'.

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BooyhooRemembering · 03/11/2012 17:49

yanbu Wink

NettoSpookerstar · 03/11/2012 17:50

Chester draw's is the worst one I've seen.

TaggieCampbellBlack · 03/11/2012 17:50

And not just one of each sign. They were all over the place. Hundred's of the fucker's.

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crackcrackcrak · 03/11/2012 17:50

Yanb'u

TaggieCampbellBlack · 03/11/2012 17:52

It was the only enjoyable part of the most awful shoe's shopping expedition.

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MikeLitoris · 03/11/2012 17:52

The worst i have seen is

Don't regret the things you have done, regret the things you have'nt.

On a friendstattoo Shock

TaggieCampbellBlack · 03/11/2012 17:54

Grin excellent.

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TigerFeet · 03/11/2012 17:54

There was a tea shop in our town centre which had "tea's" and "coffee's" expensively etched into its windows (it's window's?). Made me chuckle whenever I walked past.

Softlysoftly · 03/11/2012 17:56

YABU for not returning with a huge red pen

Sparklingbrook · 03/11/2012 17:58

Shock I would have had to come home and have a lie down. Did you stay and purchase any of the said item's Taggie. how are you feeling now? Sad

Dunelm Mill had Bath Mat's and I had to leave the shop.

BertieBotts · 03/11/2012 17:58

I get annoyed with the chain Jimmy Spices. They can't seem to decide whether the restaurant belongs to a chap called Jimmy Spice, or whether their spices are all jimmy.

They have it written both with and without an apostrophe in the SAME bit of advertising! ARGH!

The idea of the restaurant sounds so nice as well but I just can't trust myself to go and not have a rant at the staff about their company's lack of proofreaders and end up looking like a tit Blush

iwastooearlytobeayummymummy · 03/11/2012 17:59

someone at work proudly showed off their new tatoo

Its only money.

I couldn't bring myself to point out the mistake!

FamiliesShareGerms · 03/11/2012 18:01

Happily, Bertie, "Jimmy Spices / Spice's" is now called "Jimmy's World Grill". Much better!

merlottits · 03/11/2012 18:03

Some people seem to live by the philosophy that if in any doubt they should put one in, it can't do any harm.

Well it harms my bloody brain. It. Actually. Hurts.

mumbags · 03/11/2012 18:03

THANK YOU for this! I refuse to eat in restaurants, or go into shops or whatever, if they have this kind of crap up. My husband thinks I'm a grumpy cow but I get a bit of a kick out of it!

BertieBotts · 03/11/2012 18:03

Is it? I've just googled them and they appear to still be Jimmy Spices. They've changed the logo and lost the randomly appearing apostrophes, though.

Their old rage-inducing logo is still visible in the bottom left, though!

DuchessofMalfi · 03/11/2012 18:04

Sign near us - jam's and chutney's for sale. Makes me want to creep back after dark with a big bottle of tippex (can you still get that stuff?) :o

Wolfiefan · 03/11/2012 18:05

Perhaps Deb's is not her name. She could really belong to someone called Deb?
GASP at that sign.

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