I saw this handwritten notice outside a shop selling solid wood furniture this morning:
TABLE AND TWO BENCH’S £295
Can two wrongs make a technical right?
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wooden?
The Pedant-General would have much to say about this.
An Aussie friend calls it the “feral apostrophe”.
About 10 years ago I used to regularly drive past a small market garden that often advertised tomatoe’s for sale, or pick your own…
Technically, yes (possibly); stylistically, no.
Not the worst example I’ve seen…
Surely it would only be correct if it followed the pronunciation. Is there some strange accent in which “benches” has one syllable?