to be disappointed in Rishi Sunaks'

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misuse of an apostrophe?

In his resignation letter he mentions

we protected people's jobs

I thought he was better than that.

In accordance with the laws of pedanticness this post contains one (1) spelling mistake, one (1) grammar mistake, and one (1) affront to pedantry.

I agree OP. Disgraceful.
What IS this country coming to!

Thank god he has resigned with this sort of behaviour! I'd be calling for his head if the queen would allow it 😉

It's not wrong. The jobs of the people.

If you put the apostrophe at the end, it would mean jobs of the peoples.

The apostrophe is correct, though (unless I'm being stupid).

um - what’s wrong with it? Surely people is a collective noun anyway, which doesn’t need an s to make it refer to lots of persons, so why wouldn’t the apostrophe be before the s? If it was “peoples’ jobs” then wouldn’t that mean the jobs of several different peoples, such as the Scottish people and the English people? Which I suppose it could, but does it need to?
I’m prepared that I might be unreasonable here …

Looks correct to me 🤔

Your thread title on the other hand ….

A future career as Education Secretary beckons.

You're not being stupid. People is already plural.

Does it matter ? Maybe he was typing it through a vale of tears because he finally found his backbone and it hurt a bit ?
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The apostrophe is correct?

Is there a joke here that's gone over my head?

Mmmm, the apostrophe is correct OP.

Isn't it just indicating the job of the individual!?
I'm a scientist not an English language buff so perhaps talking bollocks - again!) 😜

This

I think you need to re look op!

Nope. People’s is the possessive of people (people is the plural of person). Peoples’ is the possessive peoples (differing groups of people).

I’ve now typed the word people so many times it looks like a made up word….

Oh, sweet irony.

Also, you mean Pedantry not Pedanticness

His use of the apostrophe is correct.You have used an apostrophe incorrectly though; it should be ‘Sunak’s ‘.

Hoist by your own petard, OP.

Or perhaps a veil of tears.

Op, you've made yourself look daft here!

Lol! The irony of you complaining about an error that is actually not an error, while misusing an apostrophe yourself and misspelling Sunak's name... 😂😂

Veil !! Yes, ( I'm just as bad as the chancellor )

The peoples's voice has been heard. I bow my head in shame.

But go on, op, which other errors have you found? 🤔