Next Friday, according to the calendar Sarah brought home from school, is School Record's Day.
While I understand that, for most people, the use of an apostrophe means "Look out, here come's an s!" I expect a little more than that from a school. I've been seeing an alarming number of glaring gramatical errors in documents sent home from school.
Posted by rbowen at October 10, 2003 08:49 AM | TrackBackAnd so, Jeopardy remains as the last bastian of proper apostrophic usage. Last night, they had an answer of "Sage, or a pair of the letter after X," to which the question was "What is WISE/Ys ?" As one who tries to always use this particular grammatical construct correctly, I recognize that, with short things like that (and when you have more than one PC, etc.), it looks correct to use the apostrophe to set the 's' apart even when you're only pluralizing. I was pleased to see them get it correct.
Posted by: phydeaux on October 10, 2003 10:36 AMmaybe it was placed there for ownership... that day belonged to the school records, hence, it was school record's day.
Moose's jeep
Rich's jeep
Mother's Day
School Record's day...
Of course, then I wonder which actual record owns the day....
It could be an attendance record..
It could be a track-and-field record...
It could be a Bennie Goodman record...
Either way... it now has a day...
:)
Posted by: Moose on October 10, 2003 08:06 PMI's sad to sea that you spelt gramatical incerrectly. And you with the apostrophic jihad.
Posted by: Mojo Jojo on November 8, 2003 12:43 PMFortunately, I'm not a teacher.