When we think of New Year celebrations, we think of champagne and
kissing and resolutions and Times Square and that horrible movie from 2011
that starred everyone famous.
Okay, that was uncalled for. I have never even seen that movie. I just assume it was horrible because … I don’t even know why. Ugh! Why am I being so negative?
I think I’m a little sensitive today because we associate the New
Year with so many wonderful things, but we often forget about the poor apostrophe.
I’ve been noticing lately that many people are leaving the apostrophe out when
they write New Year’s Eve and New Year’s resolutions.
And maybe I’m scared that with every year the apostrophe will
become more and more obsolete. Remember that article from earlier this year
that argued that the apostrophe was unnecessary?
So this year, I am going to make a New Year’s resolution in an
effort to honor the apostrophe:
I resolve to be a lot more possessive.
14 comments:
I remembered! Happy New Year!
HA! But the real question is... do you have five years experience or five years' experience? Does that experience belong to the years? I want to say they don't, but I could be wrong...
I usually do just the opposite and put an apostrophe before every s - so I get it wrong 50% of the time.LOL
Wishing you the best New Year ever!
Wishing you a prosperous and a Happy New Year!
This blasted apostrophe must be the most irritating part of the English language, but it's still necessary!
Happy New Year!!!
my two Resolutions are to honor the apostrophe's worth and to quit the internet forever.
so...one down,...
happy '14!
Maybe the apostrophe gets left off because they know they will never keep the resolution anyway, and this way it's not really tied to this year...
Larry
Ha ha!
Hope you have a fabulous 2014, Jenny!
Love the poor old apostrophe - can't imagine reading/writing without it!! Happy new year to you - and all the best for 2014!! :)
Happy 2014!
I love the ending of this post. You turned something stalker-ish into something educational.
I hope you're sticking with you're New Year's resolutions.
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