Today I saw the most heinous apostrophe crime ever.

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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.

Our local garage's slogan is "If we "can" do it for you, we will." I always imagine Joey from friends doing the quote unquote thing when I see it.

In my local Tesco's (!) the self-service tills didn't 'Except £50 notes'.

'Coach Party's Welcome', on a local fish n chippery.

Just seen one. "Parcel Collection Time's".

There's a shop on the way to my nan's house that's called Perfect Partys. I want to attack it with spray paint every time i drive past!

I have to say, I like 'Horse's'. As if the Horse painted it himself as a passive-aggressive way of saying '...and everyone else can keep the fuck out'.

I feel your pain. I am for'ever correc'ting udders.

We have 'Daves carpet's' which I can't drive past without clenching my fists.

Also, one of those stand-in posters advertising advertising (iyswim) in an unused poster board - 'If you can read this so can your custermer's' ARRRGGH!

The rogue quotation marks makes me laugh too. My grandparents always write 'We "Love you" Chelvis' on my cards. It always sounds like they're being sarcastic

Thanks to this thread I may actually grab my sharpie and add the lost apostrophe to a pub sign which I'm forced to drive past every weekday morning.

Carols cracking pies it proudly proclaims

Your all cracked!

Local market stall was advertising Asparagu's over the summer.

Huge A frame beside a road locally advertising Logs for Seal. O-k-k-k-a-a-a-y!

lol Chelvis, I have a much treasured anniversary card from my GD to my GM where he's put

Fond "love" always.

Snarky old bugger

The worst one I ever saw was "So sad your gone" on a (new) gravestone. Awful that nobody spotted it. It would have cost a lot of money.

We had a "local produers' market". Bugged me to hell!

My dad saw a good one years ago near where he used to work. Peasant soup.

Possibly my favourite ever spelling error, in a card from a 7 year old when I stopped teaching at his primary school: 'Sorry you are living'.

Driving past "Road salt for sale (Baged)" every day for years made me whimper.

Am now concerned about the meaning of "Final days voting for new Helston Town Brand" on the front of the local paper this week - have they missed an apostrophe out or haven't they? It could change everything...

(Can't actually read the article to check because the dog was sick on the bottom half of the page)

In a building I used to visit there was a sign in the lift "the fire alarms tested every Friday at 9.30". I whipped the pen out of my pocket (I'm a Nurse) and added the missing apostrophe. When I next visited the sign had been changed to "the fire alarm will be tested..." Every time I saw the warden I wondered if the lifts had CCTV...

After I had last c section the physio gave me a list of dos and donts. One of the them was "no hovering"

I know of a Scout centre called Otter's Rest. I have three badges from them, all punctuated differently: Otters Rest, Otter's Rest and Otters' Rest. It makes me sad.

"no hovering"

hehe

OMG, I love the one about "Deb's", Taggie - I've never seen it in ssomeone's name! I'm an English teacher. A secondary school English teacher. Must now be very careful to spell and punctuate everything properly! I cannot believe how many first years arrive in my class without a scoobie about what an apostrophe even IS. I feel that the primary teachers can't be arsed and would rather do all the fun, sticky paper type stuff instead.

• "ssomeone's name" is a typo, NOT a spelling mistake!