I’m a fan and a subscriber, and enjoy your column, so I hope you will see this as the friendly comment it is intended to be: please don’t use apostrophes to make anything plural. They are intended to show the possessive—Ethel’s hat, the Rosenbergs’ case—or intended to tip off the reader that something is missing—can’t, wouldn’t.
This has become a common misuse, but is always a bit jarring.
Hi James,
I’m a fan and a subscriber, and enjoy your column, so I hope you will see this as the friendly comment it is intended to be: please don’t use apostrophes to make anything plural. They are intended to show the possessive—Ethel’s hat, the Rosenbergs’ case—or intended to tip off the reader that something is missing—can’t, wouldn’t.
This has become a common misuse, but is always a bit jarring.
Cheers,
Maryhelen