This mistake happens in many posts. Not sure if it is deliberate but probably is as it happens time and time again.

That’s probably down to me, fingers can’t keep up with brain.

Even did it typing the above line with the space coming before the s

Not something I can alter now as I no longer have the ability to alter forum headings, just glad I did all the rearranging on the old system

I can edit the topic title but not sure what you mean by grocer’s apostrophe?

I can also do reply titles but don’t have the access level to alter Forum Headings on this system.

… or should it be grocers’ apostrophe?

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On 13 November 2023 at 16:48 ega Said:

… there are a great many of them!

Perhaps 144

[ sorry, couldn’t resist that old pun ]

MichaelG.

… no doubt unintelligible to the young!

Possibly true … but rather disappointing

A simple Google search this morning produced:

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At the moment a minor spelling error is perhaps not the most significant of the complaints about what “up-grading” has done to this august organ!

Anyway, following the rogue it is, what of that which I call the California Content? (In the same vein as the “Oxford Comma” perhaps …. Seattle might be nearer the mark geographically but lacks the alliteration. Oh, is there a Cambridge Full-Stop?)

I.e. I will be more content when I read that the posts on this Forum form its contents.

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For years a small shop in Weymouth proudly advertised Eat’s . Shoots and leaves, mayhap? Oft remarked upon, so possibly a bit of free publicity as well as ridicule, it was corrected at last, only a few years ago.

Neither.

I heard a news item today along the lines of a road name sign change to ‘St Mary road’ from ‘St Mary’s road’ upsetting the residents. Both can be correct but in this case the later was how the road was named historically and is therefore the correct version in this instance.

On 17 November 2023 at 23:12 Bazyle Said:

Neither.

I heard a news item today along the lines of a road name sign change to ‘St Mary road’ from ‘St Mary’s road’ upsetting the residents. Both can be correct but in this case the later was how the road was named historically and is therefore the correct version in this instance.

Should that be “latter”? Which only goes to show how easy it is for a simple typo to slip through when it is grammatically correct and could make sense – but appears to be incorrect in this particular sentence. But I can’t talk – I live in a house called “Badgers Sett”. Or should that be “Badger’s” or “Badgers’ “? (Had to slip in an extra space just to show the apostrophe!) When I made a house nameplate I looked at the earliest document I had that referred to the property, a transfer document from the 1950s. It had all three spellings…

So I just copied the spelling on an existing nameplate, which is also in agreement with the official Royal Mail database. I still think it is wrong. If there has been a badgers’ sett in the garden with occupants I could have asked them, but we have never seen a badger anywhere in the area!