To not buy a product due to erroneous apostrophes?

[PavlovtheCat]

It is an otherwise appropriate product and to be fair, there is only one misuse of apostrophe. I can even see why they have placed it; if in doubt add an apostrophe, right? Wrong.

But, it makes me think they have not had their website proofread, which then leads me think they are not such a professional business. This in turn concerns me should there be a problem with the product in terms of customer service and aftercare. And, if I am completely honest, it makes me feel a little bit irrationally grumpy.

Am I Being Unreasonable? DH thinks I am being so.

[EleanorFarjeon]

YANBU

[Geordieminx]

I complained to Head of HR this week as our company job board always has "Edinburgh and Lothian's" as a location.

It makes my teeth hurt.

[snooter]

I avoid a local greengrocer because it sells potatoe's and strawberrie's - worse IMO than potato's and strawberry's which are at least correct in some circumstances. The other greengrocer can spell.

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

Seen in Sainsburies in Selby.
brilliant

[Marrow]

YANBU. I frequently boycott companies and products that can't be bothered to check their grammar.

[snooter]

Sainsburies - yes, funny - might have been in all of the Sainburies though rather than the one Sainsbury

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

lol kim it's compulsory to provide an amusing grammar error in a thread about bad grammar.

[DarceyBissell]

Kim. Do you mean Sainsburys?

[TheRealFellatio]

YANBU. We must have standards goddammit, or the world will fall apart.

Does anyone remember those crispy snack things being called Crinkly's when they first came outt? They were made my McVities I think, who really should have known better. After a while I think they dropped the apostrophe (presumably to appease a rabid bunch of pedants who thought the sky was falling in) but they still called them Crinklys which is barely any better.

If I ran McVities I would make sure heads rolled and someone went without a reference and a pension over a mistake like that. I can't believe it got that far and no-one noticed. Not ad-men, not graphic designers, not copywriters, not printers.... Shocking.

[Nanny0gg]

Um. Surely Sainsbury's is correct as it refers to Sainsbury's Supermarket.
Otherwise it is Sainsbury.

And well said KittensoftPuppydog

Anyone arguing, do we say MP's? No. So we don't say DVD's.

Tesco, however isn't sure, as their big aisle banner says DVDs and the small one on the section says DVD's...

[tupuedes]

Maybe they were invented by Mr Crinkly from the R&D department?

[AmIthatSpringy]

YANBU

oh and at DVD's.

Of course it's DVDs, with the small "s"

[DarceyBissell]

I used to teach literacy to adults and it always depressed me that so many people not only didn't know how to use punctuation correctly, they didn't see it as important.
Usually got a laugh when I wrote 'Dicks in tray' on the board though.
(As opposed to Dick's in-tray, obv).

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

Don't get me started on Tesco's and Asda's.

[tupuedes]

It's always quite interesting that people get so anal over grammar but then have a good laugh about how they "can't do maths". When maths is in fact a vastly more important skill.

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

There's a Beauty Parlour/Hairdresser near here called "Your Beautiful".

Your beautiful what??

Your beautiful waxed twat?
Your beautiful eyebrows?
Your beautiful fringe?


How did this get past a Sign Maker - that depresses me - someone whose job is words

[JamieandtheMagicTorch]

OP

YANBU

That would not fill me with confidence

[SueDoku]

Sadly, Sainsburys have now officially dropped the apostrophe from their name thus losing my custom for ever , so Sainsburys is now correct (DVD's on the other hand, most definitely is not...!)

[DarceyBissell]

Tesco and Asda brands don't add possessive s , though. I think Debenhams doesn't have one either.

[25catsnameSam]

According to their website, Waitrose are selling nappie sacks.

It didn't stop me pressing the "place order" button as I have a £15 voucher. Even pedants have their price.