Stupid signs...

[Lakelover]

Probably been many threads on this very subjest but I get irrationally irritated when people use an apostrophe when not required. A roadside sign on my way to work reads 'Puppy's for sale!' Puppy's what??!
Also on big sign in shop window - SALE! Hat's!! Scarve's!!(yup) Book's!! I mean COME ON. Don't any of these people read? Goodness I sound like my Grandmother....

Why thank you so much Squonk. I LOVE Pedant's Corner! Typical though - I've only gone and included a bloody typo in my first ever post. Subjest? Apologies all. LL bows head in shame.

It pleases me that in our local Morrisons there was a sign that said "Baby trolley's and disabled trolley's are not allowed on the travelator" but when I was there recently I saw that the apostrophes have been painted out .

It's the small things that keep me happy

Can I join in?

DS's school has a sign outside the gate, saying "Slow Children Crossing" ... I keep meaning to take a marker pen, and insert a comma - my child's not that slow!

Idris - I've been tempted to get the old paint out myself on occasion!

I hate the Slow Children Crossing one too crochetdiva.

At DS's nursery we've had some corkers in his diary. 'Brekfast' 'Wonderfull' 'Suncreem'
'Samwhitch'. Am I being TOO judgemental and picky?

I would hazard a guess that about 70% of the population don't know what to do with an apostrophe. (And some of them are teachers!)

I LOVE "Heavy plant crossing".. I always picture a huge cactus in a pot lumbering across

When I started work at a nursery there was a picture on the wall entitled "Colourfull World". I redid the title on my first day!

Oh my god, can't believe I have found this forum - I am the biggest pedant around (inherited from my dad who has spent his life shouting at the tv when someone quantifies the words 'unique' - his absolute pet hate!).

I have been reading the threads on this forum for the last half hour and finding myself constantly nodding in agreement - do I need to get a life?

And apostrophes in the wrong place are my biggest pet hate!

In Boots: kid's toiletries (dh remarked that the kid had an awful lot of toiletries)

In DD2's nursery diary last week they reported on their visit to the "dack point" (duck pond). Sadly, I cannot permit any of you to mock as the perpetrator was E. European. Still made me laugh though.

Our local newspaper had some interesting spellings in the property guide.

"enterence" hall springs to mind. I wanted to correct them all and send it back to them.

We used to regularly drive past a sign saying "Proberly the cheapest beds in town" and go aaarrgghh!

Several years later the sign was replaced with one that had correct spelling.

Oh, and DS's nursery had a Christmas Bizarre last year

In America your house can be 'burglarized' you know.

at Christmas Bizarre. Picturing stalls with weird and strange decorations.

Unquietdad -well, seeing as a lot of the decorations and things for sale were made by children aged 1-4 you're probably not far off the mark

I once lived on Bishop's/Bishops Close. There was a sign on each side of the road, one with and one without the apostrophe. Maybe the people who ordered the signs were hedging their bets?

Saw a sign on a fairground ride today: 'Please ensure that your child's hands are free from any carried objects'.

That would be 'Please make sure your child isn't carrying anything,' then.

DH has asked me to add this.

On the doctorsnet equivalent of "pedants corner" there was reference to a patients child having "ass-burgers syndrome".

In Tesco I saw a sign "This door is Alarmed". DP & checkout girl didnt't share my amusement.

lol at 'ass-burgers' .

Fleecy - so no sign with a plural possessive Bishops' as well, just to cover all bases?

One of my patients went for "restbite" care last week.

Have just found Pedants' corner and this has made me laugh lots. Thank you all.