Apostrofail

September 14, 2012 by Daniel Menjívar • #english #humour

Back in July, I tweeted a photo of a sign I saw in Toronto:

Yikes! Just had to turn back to photograph this sign – there were more than 10 within a block. #apostrophail #commafail twitter.com/DanielMenjivar…
— Daniel Menjívar (@DanielMenjivar) July 18, 2012

For those of you not following me on Twitter, Here’s the original photo:

Apostrofail — Event parking for boat cruises’s distillery, district concert’s etc.

it’s truly sad that they got so many of these signs printed without proof-reading one first. Never mind the misplaced comma, why are people using apostrophes for pluralization more and more these days? Or am I just noticing it more?

If you don’t see anything wrong with it (yikes!) it should read: "Event parking for boat cruises, distillery district, concerts, etc.".