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Originally Posted by DMB
The apostrophe s for plurals is known in Britain as the "greengrocer's apostrophe", presumably because practitioners of that trade would put out handwritten notices in front of their shops saying things like "juicy plum's 1s 6d per lb".
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I'm British and I have to say I've never heard or seen that.
I have to say my biggest annoyance is the misuse of the word "went" when it should be "gone" i.e. "He should have went there" instead of "He should have gone there". It just really annoys me especially as I'm starting to hear it more and more in conversation with younger people as well as in the written word.
Whenever I see it in a book it just makes me cringe and wonder if you actually require any qualifications to be an editor/proofreader nowadays.