Grocery's Appostrophies

Did you know that appostrophies put where they don't belong are called ''grocer's appostrophies''.

I never knew. Why are they called that?

Because, sometimes grocers make mistakes and put appostrophies where they don't need to be. I've seen signs in grocery stores before saying ''banana's for sale'' that should say ''bananas for sale''. Sometimes just for humor they are called ''grocers appostrophie's''.

You've just made a grocer's apostrophe, because you put an apostrophe in the wrong place. Or maybe you did that on purpose.

They are called ''grocer's appostrophies and sometimes humorously spelled ''grocers appostrophie's''.

Apostrophe / Apostrophes

Pedantic terms should at least be spelt wright.

Simon, What term are you calling pedantic.

Here's some information about grocer's apostrophes that I got off wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe_(mark)

Grocers' apostrophes

Wrongly placed apostrophes are known as Grocers' apostrophes (or sometimes, humorously, as Grocers apostrophe's), due to the frequent occurrence of hand-written signs on their produce, offering potatoe's, cabbage's and such like.