24 thoughts on “It’s National Apostrophe Day!”

1. Nope. Bob reminded one of my favourite authors that she is damn good at her job. I loved Lavender Blue and can’t wait to read the rest of the books. Bob gets to feed apostrophes to zombies if he wants.

   1. I love everything about this post.

2. Its only grammer, is’nt it.

   1. Lea my gran outta dis, I aint never bin di sem since them mixed used
      “Let’s eat grandma!” instead of “Let’s eat, grandma!”

      1. I have a tee-shirt that says: Let’s Eat Kids
         Let’s Eat, Kids

         Punctuation Saves Lives

3. Bob already knows. He just chooses to ignore it.

4. While, your’e at it, mention, commas.

   1. and adverbs!

5. The people, and I include Bob there, Deserve to Know.

6. He’ can’ take’ it’. Hes’ a’ tough’ guy’ former’ Green’ Beret’.

7. Ah then, if we’re telling Bob, let me present a link to my second favourite reader’s editor from the Guardian UK on the apostrophlyyyy. https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,801364,00.html This man was so damn good at this job. I want a job doing this. Or fact checking. At a 21% higher salary.

   Am on the household desktop. I’m fine. Got sick enough to need the hydration at the hospital thanks to my body ejecting everything. I’m thriced vaxxed so not a single hospital person thought to covid test. Now I wonder if that’s what I had because I lost my voice a few days after returning home.

   No matter, I endure. I also read a novel all the way through. Will share, on Thursday.
   I’ll catch up with everyone soon. Sending happy-making vibes. I kinda take this site for granted, so in an effort to change my brain, a gratitude to all a’ y’all for being and engaging.

   1. Alas, your link’s broken, Sure Thing.

      1. You need the final bit of the link as well as the part that’s underlined.
         If you copy that whole address and paste it in your browser’s address bar, it gets you to the article.

   2. Glad you’re doing better!

   3. I’m glad to hear that you are feeling better. We need your essential part of the being and engaging.

8. dOnT’ FoRget about colons : like Mercedes Lackey used in the Valdemar Books: nary a ratio in sight, but the books R full of ’em!

9. Popping on here to say I’m loving LAVENDER’S BLUE (apostrophe and all!) I am so happy that this book is out in the world and more are on the way that I wrote a blog post singing the praises today. If anyone is interested in checking it out, it’s here. https://shelleyburbank.com/the-return-of-jennifer-crusie-bob-mayer/

   1. Nice review. What was yourcherry name?

      1. Hi, Judy. I was never an official Cherry😔except in my heart. I don’t think I even knew about The Cherries until BET ME…or maybe a bit earlier when there was something in a dedication or acknowledgment in one of the books.

         To say I’m excited about this series is an understatement.

         1. Great review. Needless to say, I share both your glee and excitement over the new Crusie-Mayer series.

            1. Thank you, Mari!

   2. Thank you!

10. Bob (McCalden, the Apostrophe Protection Society’s chairman) and Bob (Mayer, the one in need of “Greedy Apostrophe: A Cautionary Tale”).

    They should meet.

11. I’m beginning to think we can dispense with apostrophes. Much as I love them (and semi-colons, too, but that’s another subject), context works fine most of the time. And if there were no more apostrophes, they wouldn’t keep showing up in plurals.

    Not that I’m going to stop using them anytime soon, except when texting, where capitals and various punctuation marks are too much trouble.

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