RANT: Plural Words Do Not Have An Apostrophe!

I hate bad grammar and sloppy spelling! For the record, I post exclusively from my phone and autocorrect hates me.

That one definitely bugs me. Especially in professional publications of any kind. I don't care about spelling and grammar on social media or message boards like this one. But newspapers, magazines, ads, etc., I expect it to be right.

That drives me crazy too. At my SCHOOL (for heaven's sake!) there was once a sign on the cafeteria door that said "Quite Day" because it was a big, major state testing day. There's no talking in the cafeteria on those days. I was the new kid in town (new teacher) but had to go say something. Our sweet, wonderful secretary isn't a native English speaker and was very glad I told her.

I just hate stuff like that!

For the love of God, If you have your cute little sign with your last name on it in your yard, DON'T use an apostrophe! It shows possession, and you're not showing possession when you have a sign in your yard with your name on it...smh.

Incorrect: The Brown's
Correct: The Browns

If I may join in on the grammar police's bandwagon (see that? correct usage of an apostrophe  .)

For all that is holy, it is "I saw" or "I have seen" NOT "I seen."

No, you didn't seen. You saw.

I hear and see this one all the time and I want to scream out to the heavens "NO NO NO."

As an English major, I weep daily.

There, there, it will be alright. Really, I understand. Take a deep breath and say a few curse words and you'll feel soooooo much better. It's just wrong of people to upset us like that isn't it? Maybe a little wine would help....

Bad grammar grates on my nerves too. Just the other day though I posted a reply with apostrophes where they shouldn't be but it was an autocorrect thing and I didn't feel like going back and changing it 

The misused apostrophe is my [HASH]1 grammar peeve. Ugh! Like the OP mentioned, it makes me feel "stabby" as well.

Yes, this one makes me feel "stabby" (lol) too. There's a family in my neighborhood who recently had a new driveway put in and the middle schooler wrote in the concrete (with permission) "The Smith's" (not their real name). Every time I walk by there I feel like asking "your what? did you leave off a word like
'driveway' or 'house'?"

I have another friend, one who really ought to know better (lots of education, well-read, etc.) who ALWAYS posts photos on Facebook from family vacations, that say: "look at all the Smith's" [again, not their real name] or "lots of Smith's at the beach this year". She does this every single time so I know it's not merely a typo, it's that she doesn't know the difference. ugh.

Another very common one is when someone says "the 70's were good years" or something like that. It's only correct if you want to talk about something that happened in the year 1970 -- for example, "1970's weather was particularly bad" (although I wouldn't phrase it quite like that). But if you're talking about all the years of the decade 1970-1979 then it's just "the 70s".

Yeah.. former editor, and English teacher here. I can't help it.

{searching now for Grammarly on Facebook}

This one should make your head explode:

ACK!!!!!!!!!!