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Posted on May 9, 2012
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Heather
May 9, 2012
I do feel like that’s somehow worse than the common misuse of it’s and its.
Thank’s, Teacher’s.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
It’s a common problem in Cottage Country, where every other beloved place in the woods sports a cute little sign that says something like “The Smith’s.” (Confession: I always wanted a sign that said “Jake’s Place” in honor of my boon companion the spotted hound mix.)
Joss
May 9, 2012
Should I, shouldn’t I? No, that would be ungracious. But it doesn’t make my week.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Ah well. It is good to take things in the spirit in which they were intended.
Ed LaFreniere
May 9, 2012
Posted, no dout, by one of they’re fomer studint’s.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Well, when you come right down to it, Ed, everything is done by one of their former students, including the building of the useful and successful business where the message is posted.
A tsunami of misused apostrophes has engulfed the culture. I blame those detestable email forwards.
I should take a moment here to thank Miss Anderson because I can read the sign, and to thank Miss Backstrom because I can spot the problem.
Sean
May 9, 2012
I’m sure that makes all teachers cringe! (teacher’s)
Gerry
May 9, 2012
I expect you’re right. However, teachers are stalwart. They can sigh over the Apostrophic Failure and still appreciate the sentiment.
Martha
May 9, 2012
You just showed one of my HUGE source’s of irritation. Apostrophe’s need a spoke’s person, a caped Super Hero: The Great Apostropher.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
I like it!
Molly
May 9, 2012
I’m biting my tongue
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Gently now.
tootlepedal
May 9, 2012
I wouldn’t have minded the odd apostrophe if anyone had ever given me a week….but for some reason they didn’t.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Exactly. It crossed my mind to wonder whether this is a Formal Week along the lines of “February is Cherry Month!” or whether this is spring break. I have lost touch with school schedules. In any case, in Elk Rapids this week belongs to teachers and I, for one, will be happy to stand them all to a round of applause. They have put up with an awful lot of nonsense lately.
shoreacres
May 9, 2012
At least someone said, “Thank you”. All that’s left is for the teacher’s to say “Your welcome”.
Oh, wait…..
Gerry
May 9, 2012
The way things have been going lately for teachers, a genuine Thank You is likely to render them speechless with surprise.
sybiln
May 9, 2012
Your funny. Their isn’t nothing wrong with that sign.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Don’t you mean ain’t?
Dawn
May 9, 2012
Exactly…the thought still counts. Still…hard to see that in conjunction with teachers…still…it’s a thank you…still…well…sigh.
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Exactly. Sigh.
RTFF
May 9, 2012
Funny that I just sent you an article on grammar. That reminds me of a sign I used to see in front of a doctor’s office in Grayling. “Now accepting new patience.”
Gerry
May 9, 2012
Well, first I had to nod my head. I, too, am willing to accept new patience, the old having worn out entirely. Then I had to go read the Slate column and then I had to laugh at myself for using two spaces after the period and for becoming annoyed when software changes my spacing.
Fee
May 10, 2012
Well, I’d like to say thanks to Mrs Hill for teaching me well enough to spot the wee mistake. I won’t thank her for forcing me to read Shakespeare, though.
Superfluous apostrophes annoy me, but not as much as “would of” instead of “would have”. That one really makes me grind my teeth.
Pedantics of the world, unite!
Gerry
May 10, 2012
Imagine the banners we could wave . . . I would’ve made one but I was afraid I would encourage bad behavior. It’s fascinating to observe language changes as they happen. Our words and phrases are as malleable as the rocks and fossils tumbled in Lake Michigan’s waves. Fifty years from now everything in this whole blog, should scraps of it survive that long, will seem utterly quaint.
Karma
May 12, 2012
I am a teacher, and that was my first reaction – a sigh. Now I just read the Slate article. I was taught to type on an electric typewriter in the 1980’s by a man who was in his 50’s at the time, so I, too, am a two-spacer. I can’t imagine that I will ever be able to break the habit.
Gerry
May 12, 2012
Rob the Firefighter says he’s going to have a very hard time breaking himself of the habit. I can’t think why he would want to. It is, after all, an important part of his heritage.