Today was the first day of end of grade testing…yay! That means hours of silence followed by keeping the kids occupied before it’s time to go home. I don’t mind the testing part because it’s peaceful and quiet, if also boring.
One of the students I was testing was wearing a shirt that read: “Its’ only Funny until someone gets hurt… then its’ hilarious!” [emphasis mine].
Let’s ignore the unnecessary capitalization of the word funny. Instead, let us focus on the misplaced apostrophe in the word it’s. A big pet peeve of mine is the confusion between the words it’s and its. To me, it’s not difficult. The former is a contraction of a pronoun and a verb, while the latter is a possessive adjective. But what this person had on their shirt was neither: its’. I don’t get it. I can understand people making a mistake when typing quickly. But making the same mistake twice suggests that the person who designed the shirt is an idiot and doesn’t get messages proofread before printing t-shirts. It also makes me wonder about the person who purchased the shirt for the boy.
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