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Apostrophes: Serious Business

I just... I think I'll just leave these here:

Waterstones, the bookshop, has dropped the apostrophe in its trading name and logo, sparking outrage among some of its customers.

"It's just plain wrong", said John Richards, chairman of the Apostrophe Protection Society

(Tried going meta by putting "Apostrophe's:" in the subject, but I think that was just too evil for the mods.)

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keri
2012-01-15 05:26 pm UTC (link)

Publix is the best <3

But we have Winn-Dixie's and Food Lion's and WalMart's and it's not just that, but "the WalMart's" and "the Eckerd's" (before they switched to CVS in the region).

I always thought it was a rural South thing, dating back to when these kinds of shops were named after the owner. I don't recall Target ever getting a possessive, though it did get "the". (Noting that the person who most commonly spoke like this around me died a year ago, but she was from rural Georgia.)

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	keri 2012-01-15 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I forgot one that's a different type of store: "Barnes & Noble's". I was embarrassingly old before I learned that there's no possessive on the name. I still have trouble with a local bookshop - it's "Chamblin Bookmine" or "Chamblin Uptown", for the two locations, but I can't use anything but "Chamblin's". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eilisliana 2012-01-16 05:35 am UTC (link)
	I hear the Walmart/the Hilanders but not Walmart's. Guess it's a central northern Illinois quirk. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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