Apostrophe police

[maxxi]

Surely photo is an abbreviation and as such would better be written as "photo." and not "photo" or "photo'" and don't apostrophes denoting missing letters in a word only occur within that word?

[Sue]

Never mind the apostrophes, it's the florists in ED who don't seem to be able to spell the names of any of the flowers/plants they sell who get me.

Never sure whether to laugh or wince.

And then there was the one who had a notice on a load of wallflowers saying "Primroses", and when I pointed out they were in fact wallflowers said "Well it says Primrose on the label", so I had a look and that was, erm, the colour of them - as in, scarlet, primrose, orange .......

And then they said, well I don't suppose anybody who has bought a plant will notice :)):)):))

:))

[new mother]

Apostrophes are just the thin edge.... I am so pedantic that I took the decision a few years ago to accept the appalling grammar everywhere, inc. the dead tree media, in the hope of reducing stress and extending my lifespan...