Apostrophobia
Posted: April 9th, 2020, 11:28 am
Yes it's a genuine word (in the Urban Dictionary anyway).
I find it a bit infuriating that the Google keyboard on my Android phone, when I type "thoughts", prompts me that perhaps I would really like to use "thought's". The proportion of occasions where that would be a correct replacement must be infinitesimally small. No wonder there's a proliferation of misplaced apostrophes these days.
Now I realise there are many reasons why Google might prompt this, one of which would be because I've used the apostrophe that way in the past, but this isn't the case.
Surely there should be a bit more oversight on this?
Scott.
I find it a bit infuriating that the Google keyboard on my Android phone, when I type "thoughts", prompts me that perhaps I would really like to use "thought's". The proportion of occasions where that would be a correct replacement must be infinitesimally small. No wonder there's a proliferation of misplaced apostrophes these days.
Now I realise there are many reasons why Google might prompt this, one of which would be because I've used the apostrophe that way in the past, but this isn't the case.
Surely there should be a bit more oversight on this?
Scott.