Tuesday, July 24, 2012

A personal favourite of mine. There's something more profoundly satisfying about a professionally produced apostrophe error than a hastily hand-written blunder. Really.

Sunday, July 22, 2012


From Greek Peak ski resort in upstate New York. Home of skier's, snowboarder's and other thing's ending in s

Friday, July 20, 2012


This just in, from one of our "officer's" in TX. Seen at a Freebird World Burrito restaurant in Round Rock. A beautiful creation.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012


Don't keep me in suspense. Your 9" tomato pie is what?

Monday, July 16, 2012

I tried really hard to make this work on some weird grammatical level, but I just couldn't. A crime like this is made all the more grave by the fact that these were stuck on all the copies of this particular edition of the USA TODAY newspaper. Fortunately, their readership has dropped in recent times, so only 7 people got to see this filth.

Friday, July 13, 2012


Me: "Is Sport here?"
Shop assistant: "What?"

Case closed. Guilty of construction of an invalid plural noun. Adjourned for sentencing.

Offence committed in San Diego

Wednesday, July 11, 2012


I love a panini as much as the next man. I have even been known to have two paninis in one sitting. I don't know if I have ever eaten "panini's" though. Taken on the upper east side of NYC. Guy in the reflection got all funny with me for taking a photo of "his" building.
OK, if I'm in a REALLY forgiving mood, I can understand how some people get flustered by plural nouns and feel the urge to throw in an apostrophe for good measure. Example - "Candy's" as shown above. But "Glasse's"?

Taken in otherwise beautiful downtown San Diego, CA.


Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Courtesy of our PA operative


By emitting the apostrophe, its like its a hole different word!

This just in, from one of our officer's in TX




Seen on the door of a Farm to Market grocery store, South Congress Ave in Austin. I did not enter (what's going on in the grocery store that photos aren't allowed?)

Mission statement

People of the interweb, your/you're language is disintegrating, but there's/theirs still time to do something about it. Who's/whose got the courage to fight back before it's/its too/to late? The Apostrophe Police, that's who.  On this blog, we'll be posting crimes against that most vulnerable of punctuation marks, the common apostrophe and will punish offenders however we see fit. Scared? You should be.....

When I asked Henry "Your fruit is what?" he told me to get off his land. Not really, of course.