Posts Tagged ‘punctuation’

Don’t be stupid: Get your apostrophes right

Seth Godin, bestselling author and writer of the most popular marketing blog in the world posted about apostrophes last week.
He says:

When I get a manuscript or see a sign that misuses its and it’s and quotes, I immediately assume that the person who created it is stupid.
I understand that this is a mistake on my [...]

Maid in China

A UK supermarket, Morrisons, has been forced to withdraw a toy designed to help toddlers learn to read because some of the words were misspelled. The alphabet building blocks included a picture of an umbrella captioned ‘Umberlla’ and a boat beside the word ‘Yatch’. And instead of the usual X-ray or xylophone, the letter x [...]