Ann may be an expert on wigs, but she has a thing or two to learn about apostrophes. Apostrophes are useful punctuation marks, but there are times when they are not needed. One case in which apostrophes are not needed is when forming plurals (except when forming the plural of letters). Thus, Ann's Wig's should be Ann's Wigs. (Note the omitted apostrophe in wigs.) Here's the interesting part, though: This sign is on the back of the shop; on the front of the shop, there is an identical sign that is actually correct (no apostrophe in wigs). Is it possible that some conscientious grammarian decided to inform Ann that the sign at the front of her shop was punctuation impaired? Did she then correct the front sign but neglect to also correct the back sign? Who knows?!
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