Those blasted apostrophes

This is probably a futile exercise and this request will no doubt fall on deaf ears, but may I make a heartfelt plea for people to stop using apostrophes for plurals? We constantly see things like 'which lens's should I buy?' or 'Which one of these picture's do you like best?' etc.

Could I please inform those who don't know that the apostrophe is not used for plurals - only for possessives or where a letter is missing (eg don't, wasn't).

I know this won't do much good, but I just had to get it off my chest!

What about LENSE? People like to use that just as much as the misplaced apostrophe.

What about lense?

It's lens... not lense.

Sorry for being American and bastardizing your language. Most of our Mothers bribed our way out of 4th grade.

SHULTSIE!!! wrote in post #4426877
What about LENSE? People like to use that just as much as the misplaced apostrophe.

I agree with you about the spelling, but I still think that misuse of the apostrophe is more widespread.

SHULTSIE!!! wrote in post #4426877
What about LENSE? People like to use that just as much as the misplaced apostrophe.

What are you talking about, sticking an e on the end of words is classy, ShultsiE. :P

carianoff wrote in post #4426892
Sorry for being American and bastardizing your language. Most of our Mothers bribed our way out of 4th grade.

Hi - misuse of the apostrophe is common - and wrong - on both sides of the Atlantic

carianoff wrote in post #4426901
What are you talking about, sticking an e on the end of words is classy, ShultsiE. :P

Why aren't you called carianoffe then?

Roy Mathers wrote in post #4426919
Why aren't you called carianoffe then?

Cuz the name is Ruski not Ruskie

Ruskie's classier!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #4426932
Ruskies classier!

Fixed

Roy, I feel your pain.

I do not know where the annoying habit of using gratuitous apostrophes started. It is one of the best and loudest ways to scream, "I'm illiterate!" to a world full of forum readers.

The very idea of using additional effort to add meaningless and incorrect punctuation to a word simply boggles my mind.

As an American, the embarrassing thing is that the literacy level of my fellow US citizens is so much worse than people from various non-English speaking countries. I fear the trend won't be reversed anytime soon.

What drives me insane are posts that are totally devoid of capitalization and punctuation...