To get so annoyed reading plural words where the writer has used an apostrophe?

[missmouse101]

I can't take much more of this; it ruins whatever I am reading. It has become so common and I have no idea why? Do people not want to get it right? It is puppies, families, hobbies, butchers, bakers, potatoes if you are writing about more than one. If you are writing about one (for example the puppy's paw, then the apostrophe is indeed correct.) I am probably BU in letting it affect me so much but I just had to vent!

Fuck me. "a" joke.

Boils my piss as well, can't bear it. YANBU OP

Perhaps all of these people are Dutch. I was incredulous when I found out about apostrophes in Dutch:To keep a vowel long when adding -s to a noun

"If a noun ends in an unstressed vowel, its plural gets -s at the end. To keep the long vowel long, we use an apostrophe. Recall, that if a single vowel sits in a syllable that ends in one or more consonants, it is a short vowel).
collega's colleagues alibi's alibis
baby's babies accu's storage batteries
Not all vowels need an apostrophe to remain long."

Should of just said bant's, echt.

Sorry: the quotation should begin after the colon on the second line...

How I remember this one, is at the end of a word that ends in s you put the apostrophe after the s. ie, Thomas singular, or Thomas' plural.

Bloody autocorrect is always putting random apostrophes in the wrong place. I don't always spot them before I quickly press send. Makes me furious! Autocorrect grammar checkers also make plenty of other mistakes as well. Who programs these things and why can't Apple, Microsoft or whatever tech company get it right? Having said that, I don't know how some people manage to get through school without a basic grasp of grammar. It's a sad reflection on the education system.

Nice split infinitive in my own post, lol!

The trouble is if technology does it all for us maybe over time people won't need to learn at all? Not sure that's such a good thing. I'd like to, say, when texting someone just do it any old how, but still do it mostly correctly. Anyway, I digress but about spelling - no we can't all know every single word, or bother to look it up mid post, but one word that really annoys - me people always seem to be getting it wrong - is the difference between loose and lose.

Apostrophes where they shouldn't be really annoy me. If I see a company doing this then I just won't use them!

Re 'of' and 'if'
I frequently mistype those due to fat fingers,