To think that companies who make children's clothes should check how to use apostrophes?

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We've been given a t-shirt for dd which says 'I'm the bees knee's' on it'. Surely SOMEONE should have checked and realised that there doesn't need to be an apostrophe in 'knees'?!?! Am I being mad and pedantic? Or should the muppets who made this t-shirt have got this right?

(BTW it's a Pumpkin Patch t-shirt in case anyone's interested)

Oh, and all the 20somethings at work think I'm mental to get cross about this and I should get out more (I agree with the 'get out more' bit)

Maybe we should all go round with Tippex and rid the world of rogue apostrophes.

And we're not alone, I've discovered there's a website dedicated to the 'protection of the apostrophe' see
here

HarktheHeraldTippexQueen, you live near me don't you, it's YOU who has been daubing red paint on all the "Xmas Tree's for sale" signs. The local paper (and the owner of the signs) want to know who it is, i will tell them it was YOU.

Oh I LOVE John Richards.
What a great cause - yes let's go on a mission.
One question - am I old fashioned in referring to the telephone as the 'phone or is it no longer necessary to mark the missing letters??

omg I spelt "apreciation" wrong. I hang my head in shame and resign as a grammar pedant...

Er, shouldn't it be companies who make childrens' clothes?

Nope, children's because children is already plural (you wouldn't say childrens).

I am not the guerilla apostrophe pedant, but I slightly wish I was

It drives me bananas. The greengrocer in our village was advertising 'avacadoe's' last week, and my head nearly exploded. Bloke failed to understand my rage, and treats my pedantry as ridiculous.

Since deciding that I wasn't going to return to work after ML I have been taking on freelance editing and proofreading work, which is perfect. I get to stay at home with little Ff all day, can work in my jim jams, and get paid for pointing out people's mistakes in red pen.

It drives you to despair doesn't it? Especially the response from Mothercare. Somehow it is harder to forgive on a T shirt that a market trader's board as well.

Oh yes .

FfFf I am extremely jealous. I once called in to a publisher to tell them that a book they had published was full of errors (their inability to distinguish between its and it's had driven me to distraction, and I was going very nearly past their door anyway). They seemed to think I was some sort of lunatic and asked me to write to them instead.

Ooooooh FfFf, I'd love to know how you got into that kind of work. I'm an English teacher (so this thread is right up my street ) but not currently teaching and could do with a part-time job to do at home!

I looooooove this thread. Nothing to add, other than to say I salute you all and fully support your mission.

Hey Olifin - I WANT to be an English teacher. In fact about to embark on OU course to start gaining enough credit!

YANBU!

Drives me bonkers - almost as much as when people put you're instead of your - AAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Hello sasamax- enjoy the course!
Hopefully, my days of English Teaching are not over yet...I'd love to go back to it when my children are both at school but for now, the thought of all that paperwork (and the STRESS of it all) alongside looking after the DCs and running the home is just too much to contemplate!

Hope you enjoy it though

(Hopes no-one noticed the unnecessary capital 'T' in her last post )

DS has a bib that says "I luv mess and mess luv's me". I bought it myself
In my defense, it was exactly what I was looking for (it has sleeves) and was very cheap. And he's never going to wear it outside the house. Makes me cringe every time he wears it though.

Thanks Olifin - hope I can find the time to enjoy it

Unrelated to apostrophes but our DD has a bowl (from Tesco, I think) in which is printed:
'I'm all finished'

Forgive me for being uber-pedantic but is this not just a little...well, wrong? I think they're just being colloquial rather than illiterate but it doesn't wash with me.