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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (24)1/1/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (2) of 4710
 
Another peeve: the increasing use of apostrophes to create a plural noun, as in "I had dinner with friend's" (or, worse yet, "I had dinner with freind's"). Why on earth would anyone do this? I can understand confusion about its/it's, but.... Yes, many people use an apostrophe when dealing with acronyms or numbers (1990's; VCR's). This is perhaps not really wrong, even if it makes me cringe; how, though, did it come to be extended to perfectly ordinary words?
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