greengrocer's apostrophe
Noun
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Noun
greengrocer's apostrophe
- An incorrectly used apostrophe, especially one mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun, for example to write the plural of banana as banana's instead of bananas.
- 1993, British Film Institute, Sight and Sound Film Review
- […] sign advertising the Pari's Hotel is less an early case of greengrocer's apostrophe than a sardonic Pascalian allusion (pari in French meaning 'bet').
- 2004, Joy Burrough-Boenisch, Righting English That's Gone Dutch
- When applied in English it produces greengrocer's apostrophes.
- 1993, British Film Institute, Sight and Sound Film Review
- French: apostrophe mal placée
- German: Deppenapostroph, Idiotenapostroph
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