I’m having apostrophe angst. Oh, it’s not because I’m not sure if I need one or not — it’s because I’ve seen several that shouldn’t be there. On my drive to work there’s a billboard I often glance at. The most recent artwork is promoting a radio station that plays music from the 80s and 90s. Alas, whoever approved the design of the billboard overlooked the errant apostrophes… ...

The semicolon is one of the most misused and misunderstood pieces of punctuation in the English language. This confusion is one of the reasons why it’s slowly being phased out of the grammar toolbox. If not for the 😉 emoji, the semicolon might disappear altogether. Unlike a comma (or a period), it links statements together that are closely related but are not part of the same subject in a sentence. ...

Imagine seeing your redonkulous spelling mistake plastered on banners seven-feet high at a flagship store in a major city, repeated in hundreds of other places during a countrywide advertising campaign, and then lampooned mercilessly on Twitter. Naturally, your gaffe threatens to mock you online, forever, too. That’s what happened with a 2011 Boxing Day ad campaign by Australian department store Meyers, which reminded customers that, “Early bird get’s the right size.” Embarrassing photo evidence here: http://www.news.com.au/business/myer-ridiculed-over-grammar-gaffe/story-e6frfm1i-1226236132565 An act of awful apostrophe is humiliating. ...