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The misuse of apostrophes is running rampant. You do not use them to indicate a plural version of a word,
(ex.
Incorrect: The mailbox is filled with envelope's.
Correct: The mailbox is filled with envelopes.)-whatever this misuse would be called is not a use case,
(ex.
Incorrect: The toy company sue'd the comic company.
Correct: The toy company sued the comic company.)
-and the only reason to use an apostrophe in the case of it's is for a contraction of it is.
(ex.
Incorrect: Its not it's fault. It doesn't know better.
Correct: It's not its fault. It doesn't know better.
(Same story with doesn't- it's a contraction of does not. That's (that is) what the apostrophe indicates.))
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Oh, no, the apostrophe debacle is nothing compared to the mass grammar crimes inflicted on the word 'data'. Very few people see anything wrong with the sentence 'the data shows that this is the case', but in fact it should formally read 'the data show that this is the case'. 'Datum' is the singular form of the word and 'data', strictly speaking, is and always has been plural. Also, 'agenda' is technically the plural of 'agendum' and language may or may not be doomed to change over time, especially in the direction of ease of use over rigid structure. I'm definitely with you on this, but I suspect eventually our side of the argument is going to go the way of checking the agendum for the next meeting.
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