A 'positive deficiency' then!

BlinkyBill:

Gurezaemon:

I'm not sure if you're trying to troll me and make me obsessively check for errors (although I missed an 'and' in 'getting using') but I don't think I've missed anything...

Typo’s, app’s.

BlinkyBill:

 

Gurezaemon:

 

I'm not sure if you're trying to troll me and make me obsessively check for errors (although I missed an 'and' in 'getting using') but I don't think I've missed anything...

 

 

Typo’s, app’s.

 

Nope. They're not possessives, and so don't need an apostrophe. 

From the grammarly site:
Using an unnecessary apostrophe to form the plural of a noun is a very common mistake. Sometimes, it’s called the grocer’s apostrophe because of how frequently it is spotted in grocery store advertisements (3 orange’s for a dollar!). Don’t do it! With very few exceptions, apostrophes do not make nouns plural.

If you wanted to be really nitpicky you could argue that both "typos" and "apps" are contractions ("typographical errors", "applications") and therefore should have apostrophes, but as both abbreviations are in very common use I'd argue that the 'short versions' are words in their own right (indeed, both appear in the OED).

Behodar:

 

If you wanted to be really nitpicky you could argue that both "typos" and "apps" are contractions ("typographical errors", "applications") and therefore should have apostrophes, but as both abbreviations are in very common use I'd argue that the 'short versions' are words in their own right (indeed, both appear in the OED).

 

If you want to get really really nitpicky, typo and app are clipped forms rather than contractions — o'clock is a contraction, but gym is a clipped form. As such, clipped forms don't usually take apostrophes. More details here. 

If they did, we'd be writing 'bus for omnibus or 'phone for telephone, making you look rather Edwardian in your writing style 😋

Gurezaemon:

 

Behodar:

 

If you wanted to be really nitpicky you could argue that both "typos" and "apps" are contractions ("typographical errors", "applications") and therefore should have apostrophes, but as both abbreviations are in very common use I'd argue that the 'short versions' are words in their own right (indeed, both appear in the OED).

 

 

If you want to get really really nitpicky, typo and app are clipped forms rather than contractions — o'clock is a contraction, but gym is a clipped form. As such, clipped forms don't usually take apostrophes. More details here. 

 

If they did, we'd be writing 'bus for omnibus or 'phone for telephone, making you look rather Edwardian in your writing style 😋

 

'Crikey

Gurezaemon: typo and app are clipped forms rather than contractions

"Today I learned", as they say!

Fair enough, I thought that as they are contractions the apostrophe is needed, but it seems not.

BlinkyBill:

 

Fair enough, I thought that as they are contractions the apostrophe is needed, but it seems not.

 

Times have changed, Mrs. Floyd was only offered nitrous oxide and an epidural for her contractions back in the day.

Ge0rge:

Ge0rge:

Posted April 1

When you Ask for Better, and Chorus tell you it will be better by March 2021, but now it's April 2021 and there are still no signs of it getting better.

"Available April 2021" changed to "Available May 2021" at the end of April. This week, it has changed to "Coming Soon".  Come on @chorus, you're killing me here!

Ge0rge:

Nine days later, and now they've changed the website to "Available June 2021"

I'm not quite sure if that's a good thing or not.

it still has a date, thats a good thing

Christ, can we *please* exclude grammar from this thread from this point onward? Go start a "I need to have a bitch and moan about grammar and spelling" thread or something.

networkn:

 

Christ, can we *please* exclude grammar from this thread from this point onward? Go start a "I need to have a bitch and moan about grammar and spelling" thread or something.

 

It'll fizzle out of its own accord eventually. Many of us find other topics such as sport, bad driving, or networking just as uninteresting, but we deal with it and pass over them if they don't interest us. 
The variety is what gives this place its vibrancy.

floydbloke:

 

Times have changed, Mrs. Floyd was only offered nitrous oxide and an epidural for her contractions back in the day.

 

Seems to me that nitrous oxide would be appropriate for people here that are worried about apostrophes.

That the transaction fees on small purchases at Ticketek made up more than 25% of the purchase. Outrageous.