Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The misuse of apostrophes: Does it irk you?

Today's QotD inspired by today's random read of the day on Salon.com - America’s apostrophe catastrophe: What's with the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation?  - by Arianna Huffington.


4 comments:

Andrew said...

Not to the level of Ariana Huffington. But you know what does irk me? The use of spaces on either sides of em dashes, such as what Ariana did repeatedly in her grammar nazi rant on poor grammar.

Sean said...

Far more "excusable" than misused quotation marks. Or sentence fragments.

Cate said...

It drives me crazy. Please learn the difference between plural and possessive.

Lisa said...

Absolutely. Misused, missing and unnecessary apostrophes all irk me. "Your welcome" might be the worst of all.