to quietly correct this?

[forgotmypassagain]

I want to preface this with saying at this juncture I have not uttered a word.

Through my DDs I am friendly with one of the school mums (sit with her at parties, message about the kids, take them to soft play together).
She’s recently set up a business…let’s call it The Happy Faces but on all her promotional things she’s put an apostrophe in faces so the the business is called “The Happy Face’s”…

I suppose I’m asking if anyone would point this out to her? The type of business it is lends itself to correct grammar, punctuation and spelling. Mine is by no means perfect btw and I’m asking more from the point of view that she is absolutely lovely and i would like to see her succeed and wouldn’t want people to be put off the business by incorrect punctuation in the business name.

Are you sure that it is a typo ? It might be deliberate to avoid google mix up.

No it would be Laura and Jane's card shop

But don't spell unnecessarily wrong in your message 😉

'oh no! The printers have put in a dodgy apostrophe... Don't let them charge you to correct it. Good luck with the launch, so exciting!'

All of them. You check. It’s not hard to check. Careless people don’t check. Careless people will be careless with other things.

Whooops I thought it looked wrong 😂

I wouldn't avoid a business with occasional dodgy SPAG in their website blurb, but I'd find it hard to have faith in them if they can't even get their own name right. This is not an informal text message, or a wittering post on mn, this is the published face of your business - it's supposed to show your best side! And if you can't even get that right....

My current suppressed irritation is about emails from primary school. You know, the people who are supposed to teach children how to read and write. Occasional mistakes wouldn't be noticeable or if I did notice I wouldn't care. But I think someone massively over-ordered apostrophes at the beginning of the year and they are determined to get rid of them so scatter them liberally throughout every communication 😆 That, and the fact there are frequently amendments sent out (then amendments to the amendments) to correct emails and info they have already sent is starting to really annoy me. I'm not perfect and I'm sure this post is riddled with typos and inelegant wording - but it is informal, I would never send out the kind of crap they send in a professional capacity from a school. I know I shouldn't say it, but I've said it to you lot, and I wouldn't say it to them. But yeah. Thanks I feel better for that!

@SeeSeeRider

stay with android!!

my iPhone just changes stuff of its own accord & changes things like wouldn't to would. It changes their/they're/there & to/too/two
and various other stuff - drives me batty.

@SeeSeeRider

stay with android!!

my iPhone just changes stuff of its own accord & changes things like wouldn't to would. It changes their/they're/there & to/too/two
and various other stuff - drives me batty.

@forgotmypassagain

yes, tell her, but don't be all mealy mouthed & twee, just tell her.

Can't you turn it off in the settings?

Please tell her. It will put many people off coming to her for her services, especially if grammar and attention to detail are supposed to be part of them.

Careless people don't get my money. It matters.

Tell her, I'm dyslexic, my spelling/ grammar and hand writing are all bad! If you are nice about it and doing me a favour I'd appreciate it.

'Sue, I'm not sure if you've noticed but there shouldn't be an ' between the e and the s'

Because it is their joint card shop. The card shop belonging to Laura and Jane.

If Laura and Jane both had a card shop each, then Laura's and Jane's card shops.

These things are so awkward.

If she's doing it repeatedly that suggests she has no idea where and when to use apostrophes...

So you can try and protect her feelings by phrasing it as 'Did you notice this typo?' but ultimately it's not a typo is it? It's embarrassing but she really needs someone to explain how to use apostrophes... and I would personally just find that too awkward. Otherwise she might remove it in the one place you flag as a typo but she'll have no idea why she's actually removing it and be too embarrassed to ask and rogue apostrophes will just keep popping up all over the place for evermore...

I think you need the more direct approach of 'there shouldn't be an apostrophe between the e and the s because that would only be used if you were talking about something that belonged to a Happy Face'.

I once pointed out to a promoter that he’d called an event Hero’s Night instead of Heroes Night. He said he knew it was wrong, but he got better results on Google with the incorrect version.

A little bit of me died.

That's so sad.

He was also wrong because Google suggests correcting it to heroes when you search.

don't be a dick. why should the printers have to take the hit?

I understand that would mean two different card shops?

Doesn't matter if your phone autocorrects or doesn't auto correct or whatever. The OP's friend's phone probably got it right or would have got it right. OP is just being suggested a way of selling it to her friend and maintaining the friendship. A text saying "Oi thickie, you do know it should be Happy Faces not Face's" is not going to go down well, is it?

Blaming it on the technology gives the friend an out, an explanation.

Tricky. Suggesting the change as a possibility is a good formulation here. "Looks great! But you might consider taking out that apostrophe..."

I'm not being a dick actually @greenpolarbear

It is just a face saving device so the op's acquaintance can be told about the error without looking stupid.

A sent message between school mum's isn't going to trigger a claim for free work is it.

The acquaintance would know full well it's not the printers mistake and therefore isn't going to have a futile conversation with them about it.

It just means she can exclaim 'oh no, thank goodness you told me, I'll get that sorted before my customers see it' and correct it without feeling like a knob.

Well this sort of scenario calls to mind a journalist I saw on twitter who was taking the piss out of how their local cafe owner had spelled ‘coffee’ in a handwritten menu in their window. It came across as needlessly supercilious and the SPAG probably didn’t affect the quality of the product. There was probably also (inferring from fluency of the menu overall) a language barrier too. I appreciate OP’s friend’s case is different but a full-on boycott of all businesses strikes me as OTT 🤷‍♀️