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I agree with you about misplaced apostrophes, but what gets my goat even more is mispronunciation e.g. drawring for drawing, haitch for aitch being two that spring instantly to mind there are others!

Joolery for jewellery does my head in!

Changing the subject, does it annoy you when people on this forum fail to acknowledge when someone has tried to help them? It takes seconds to post a thank you and is just good manners.

A teacher once gave her class the following sentence,and told them to punctuate it any way they wanted.

a woman without her man is nothing


Most boys wrote:

A woman, without her man, is nothing.

Most girls wrote:

A woman: without her, man is nothing.

Punctuation can be powerful...

I hope this is not an urban myth

p@

an interesting problem is to punctuate a sentence with 5 consecutive ANDs
any suggestions?
I will give the answer later

Here in the States it's exasperatingly common to see surnames made plural with apostrophes. You'll see something like "The Smith's" posted at the bottom of a driveway. What's equally annoying is the failure to properly pluralize names that end with s; you'll see something like "The flowers were donated by the Simonds" or (far worse) "the Simond's". By the way, sallyw, I believe you've helped me, and I believe I've thanked you.

MMMM Dave...

Interesting....mmmm

I once consulted the law firm of And, And, And, and And (it was a rather drawn-out affair); the H was dropped when they came to the US, since there was a misunderstanding at Ellis Island.

yes, sallyw, I completely agree with you. It is just bad manners to accept help without acknowledging it.
As far as punctuation is concerned I suppose all of you have read the very amusing Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Sally, you gave me a laugh, unintentionally - I assume your 'Shakespeares' time' was a typing error?!