To be irritated by son's school sign, which is incorrectly spelled?

[SlinkyB]

My ds has just started in Reception at our lovely local school.

However, it is annoying me on a daily basis that the big signs at the school have spelled the name wrong. To save outing myself, I have changed the school name to Mumsnet...

Mumsnet Infant School

Since buying the uniform, PE bag, and getting the book bag, I have realised it is actually:

Mumsnet Infants School

I know it's only an s, but it's bugging me! I must admit to being a pedant regarding spelling and grammar (awaits posters telling me there are errors all over my post) but this is a school and they are big, professionally made signs

AIBU to want to mention it to a teacher, and suggest a fundraiser to replace them?!

Get a hobby love.

It's just an s and a fundraiser to replace them is a waste of fundraising effort.

'spelled the name wrong' should this not be 'spelt the name wrong?!!!!'

You just wait until you start to get notes home from the teachers. I remember receiving one in Y2 that said "ds must remember to practice his spellings..."

I work in a fancy gastropub. when I print customer's bills, the village name is incorrectly spelled.

so for example it should say, "The Inn - Mumsnet" but actually says, "The Inn - Mumsnete".

my heart sinks every time I see it. I mean, that's just shit isn't it.

Spider it depends on whether the OP's American or not.

Testing name change...

Sorry - is it just a typo (they've added the extra "s" on the uniform, book bag in error) or is the error that the main sign is wrong and it should be Infants?

If it should be "Infants", then surely they need an apostrophe so that it would be "Mumsnet Infants' School"?

'spelled the name wrong' should this not be 'spelt the name wrong?!!!!' was just going to say the same, Spiderwebb85.

It worked few.

I work at St Thomas's Hospital which insists on referring to itself as St Thomas' Hospital. Do I win? It drives me nuts!

Few?! I mean Phew!
Bugger.

You wouldn't need the apostrophe because 'infants' is descriptive not possessive. The children don't own the school.

Damn those adjectival nouns eh?

Why are you assuming the school sign is spelt wrong?

Isn't it more likely that the uniform supplier has printed everything with the S missing?

Unless you also have something official from the school, or other signs etc. etc. confirming that it really should be Infants not Infant.

In fact they usually are "Bloggs Infant School" rather than "Bloggs Infants School" aren't they?

It should be Infant School, in the same way that a Junior School is not called a Juniors' School.

You'll have to get yourself elected onto the governing body and make changing the name your first priority.

Freckled from what I can gather from letter headings, literature and clothing, it should be 'Infants'.

Spelled or spelt is fine (former more American, granted). My spelling is just on a forum post though, not a 6ft sign on a busy main road.

Petrean isn't that correct? I thought if the name ended with an s the extra s is superfluous?

Sorry, with an extra S added NOT with the S missing!

Petrean it IS St. Thomas' hospital no? They have it right...

St Thomas' is a perfectly grammatically acceptable alternative to St Thomas's. The second s can be omitted.

Ask half the staff. Half of us think S' the other half S's. Al the new signs say St Thomas' all the older stuff you see (statues, tiles, certificates, medals etc..) say St Thomas's.

Google says either but favours St Thomas's for what it is worth...

But agreement over matters pertaining to the apostrophe has been hard to achieve. The Oxford Guide to English Usage is firm that nouns ending in s add 's for the single possessive, including names such as Thomas's; but this is clearly disputed by a famous London hospital which, contrary to the pronunciation used by all of London, has irritatingly erected a large sign where it describes itself as St Thomas'.

If historically it's been St. Thomas's it seems a bit silly to change it now.

In happier news when Glasgow Subway were renovating some of their stations a couple of years ago they sensibly managed to give St. George's Cross back its apostrophe. The 'St. Georges Cross' sign always made me roll my eyes.

That was a Google quote BTW. It really doesn't matter, I'm just teasing. Although I now realise the OP isn't complaining about apostrophe use and complaining instead on confusion over infant and infants.

I'd have expected there to be an apostrophe.

But perhaps that's from exposure to several XX Girls' Schools

St Thomas' is a perfectly grammatically acceptable alternative to St Thomas's. The second s can be omitted.

The arcane rule relates to Latin-based and non-Latin names. eg Thomas's or Julius'.