Apostrophe'''''s, when did the rot set in?

[GC8]

Magic919, you really are a sad loser.

[Osinjak]

From the good old Maily Dail:

[Cold]

[nicanary]

Watching BBC4's documentary history of the Vietnam War and the placards in 1968 read "Bring GI's home".

Nothing new under the sun.

[Magic919]

Ranger 6 said:

which I did a couple of weeks ago and it's now on it's way back.

[Europa1]

Osinjak said:

From the good old Maily Dail:

Yes, you'd think they'd know IKEA should all be in capitals.

[DickyC]

John Lewis in Newbury.

[singlecoil]

227bhp said:

It is in fact a bit dangerous to wrap sarnies in as a fly could get in between the folds, have a bit of a spit and chew and lay it's eggs in there whilst it's at it.

[DickyC]

[Magic919]

Pesty said:

If we take that sentiment to it's obvious conclusion ( obvious to me it leads this way but as we all know I'm hard of thinking)

[Magic919]

Lukeypoodle said:

Here's a question... The reg for the chassis VIN, what's it's status with DVLA, is it still in use?

[Magic919]

CooperS said:

Tbh it's odd that big business needs to charge it's customers £1 for parking but most will refund you if you spend over X and it deters those wanting free parking if it's near a town centre.

[anonymous-user]

Einion Yrth said:

CoolHands said:

help please

how would I write

"ALL the existing building's neighbouring properties to the (south) are only 3 stories. They are cherry-picking the favourable fact while ignoring the inconvenient one, and wish to extend the 4-storey buildings' creep into 3-story territory."

the bold bit. is that correct?

That is the correct way to form the possessive of most plural English nouns, yes.

But incorrect spelling of storeys and storey!

[Magic919]

Mr Whippy said:

Yep, they basically used the metric for comparison that is the least relevant for an M car vs it's siblings.

[Osinjak]

Roman Rhodes said:

Einion Yrth said:

CoolHands said:

help please

how would I write

"ALL the existing building's neighbouring properties to the (south) are only 3 stories. They are cherry-picking the favourable fact while ignoring the inconvenient one, and wish to extend the 4-storey buildings' creep into 3-story territory."

the bold bit. is that correct?

That is the correct way to form the possessive of most plural English nouns, yes.

But incorrect spelling of storeys and storey!

Nope, you're wrong. Correct all round. You can pluralise storey as stories but would normally expect it to be storeys.

[anonymous-user]

Osinjak said:

Roman Rhodes said:

Einion Yrth said:

CoolHands said:

help please

how would I write

"ALL the existing building's neighbouring properties to the (south) are only 3 stories. They are cherry-picking the favourable fact while ignoring the inconvenient one, and wish to extend the 4-storey buildings' creep into 3-story territory."

the bold bit. is that correct?

That is the correct way to form the possessive of most plural English nouns, yes.

But incorrect spelling of storeys and storey!

Nope, you're wrong. Correct all round. You can pluralise storey as stories but would normally expect it to be storeys.

I'm humbled! Actually, that's interesting now you point it out.

Can I redeem myself by pointing out that "creep into 3-story territory" is wrong and ask for a score-draw?!

[anonymous-user]

Roman Rhodes said:

Osinjak said:

Roman Rhodes said:

Einion Yrth said:

CoolHands said:

help please

how would I write

"ALL the existing building's neighbouring properties to the (south) are only 3 stories. They are cherry-picking the favourable fact while ignoring the inconvenient one, and wish to extend the 4-storey buildings' creep into 3-story territory."

the bold bit. is that correct?

That is the correct way to form the possessive of most plural English nouns, yes.

But incorrect spelling of storeys and storey!

Nope, you're wrong. Correct all round. You can pluralise storey as stories but would normally expect it to be storeys.

I'm humbled! Actually, that's interesting now you point it out.

Can I redeem myself by pointing out that "creep into 3-story territory" is wrong and ask for a score-draw?!

And if we're playing by British English rules I'll claim storeys as correct too (yes I was sad enough to Google it!).

[Osinjak]

Roman Rhodes said:

Can I redeem myself by pointing out that "creep into 3-story territory" is wrong and ask for a score-draw?!

Oh alright then.

[Magic919]

Tucker1 said:

Agreed its a BS system using the title of scrappage, but the dealer can maybe play only with it's own margin. It's likely unable to give me VW's £5k discount without taking my old 2006 £500 140,000 mile Fiesta off of me.

[DickyC]

A lot of the it's and its mistakes could well be over zealous predictive text missed by the writer rather than an indictment of the nation's poor grammar.