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Friday, September 12, 2008

Criminal Sentence 91: More Incorrect Apostrophe's

From an ad from a nursery:

Available to Everyone
Residential or Commercial

Home Owners
Schools
Churches
H.O.A.'s
Golf Courses
Land Mgt. Co's
Cities
Business'
Apartments

Some grammarians allow an apostrophe plus an "s" after an acronym like HOA, so I guess I don't have a quibble with H.O.A.'s. As far as Co's, that is OK because it is an abbreviation. I do, however, object to Business'. That is definitely wrong. What I don't get is the writer pluralized apartments and other nouns correctly (no apostrophe). It must just be a careless error, but I still can't imagine making it.

1 comment:

Joy-Mari Cloete said...

Isn't it Grammar Girl who advocates forming plurals with apostrophes only when doing otherwise would create a new word?

I love such simple advice.