S.P.A.M.

The Society for Prevention of Apostrophe Misuse

Have you ever cringed when you've seen signs like: "No parking during daylight hour's", "Kids toys", or "Photo's while you wait" ? Ever had your blood boiling inside while trying to CALMLY explain to someone the difference between it's and its?

Apostrophe abuse is rampant. The English language is being tarnished and degraded by people who really should know better. There are some people on a campaign to kill it off entirely. And then there's Tesco, who have an appalling history of leaving out required apostrophes and inserting erroneous ones on their signs.

Join the Society for Prevention of Apostrophe Misuse and let's try to save this graceful punctuation mark from any further damage.

created by Turaturai [~is lost~]

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moo says:

posted Feb 9

moo says:

Listen, I know it's not apostrophes, but it is Tesco (again) and since there's only 13 of us in here, and the group is rather quiet, you can lynch me if you like but I posted an example of Tesco's finest spelling on my page:
http://virb.com/moom/photos/860803

(Edit: realised you're not all 'friends' (why not??) so here's the flickr version for you).
Anyone know if there's a general group for poor spelling as opposed to grammatical errors (the first group I joined, naturally)?

posted Sep 19

moo says:

I found this one this afternoon!

posted Aug 3

Comment replies (1)

Turaturai [~is lost~] says:

But again, it might, vaguely get away with it as "Your photo is printed...".

Actually I made a similar mistake myself the other day - I spelt Italians (as in plural of Italian) with an apostrophe. Oh the shame, again.

posted Aug 7

Hena says:

I know the difference between its and tits.

posted Jul 28

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Joe says:

yeah, me too...

posted Jul 29

Matt TheHat says:

Its about time. This group definitely has it's place here.

*evil grin*

posted Jul 27

Comment replies (5)

iixila. says:

awww..
that's awful.

boo! boo!

posted Jul 28

Turaturai [~is lost~] says:

Yikes Alixi thank God you said that - I hadn't noticed there was anything wrong with that at all. For shame, I should be kicked out of the group!

posted Jul 28

iixila. says:

HAHA!
did you think his
*evil grin*
was just for kicks?
[:

posted Jul 29

very says:

there's just something about grammar humor.
like it's sexy or something.

posted Jul 31

Turaturai [~is lost~] says:

Ha ha ha!
I love you.

posted Aug 7

iixila. says:

ah....
at last.
people who care about grammar.
*inhales deeply*
so good to be home.

[ja, I'm pathetic.]

posted Jul 27

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Turaturai [~is lost~] says:

Only on Virb. :)

posted Jul 28

moo says:

Boarding kennel outside Whitchurch, Shropshire.

posted Jul 27

Comment replies (2)

Turaturai [~is lost~] says:

Out of context it could be "Dog is available for re-homing." Of course that's no excuse; it's clear they mean multiple dogs.

posted Jul 27

moo says:

Yes, there was definitely more than one poor dog! The photo's blurred because I drove past it so often and it annoyed me every time, that I just had to take a snap - not easy when driving (or advisable).

posted Jul 27