Grammar

Seen today in the window of a women's clothing store: "'its' here." Repeated in every window of the store. Now, there are two major things wrong with that: one, it should be "it's." Unless "here" is suddenly a noun that can belong to an it and no-one bothered to tell me. Also, the use of quotation marks there is egregious. Even worse than most cases where quotation marks are misused as indicating emphasis, in large part because I can't see how emphasis would go there at all. I mean, The "New" Jury Room -- horrible and wrong and seems to mean the reverse of what it says but at least you know what they're trying to say. They're out of italics, clearly, and want to emphasize the newness anyway. But just try that with "'its' here." Say "it's here" out loud. Right. My point exactly. You say "it's here" if you want to put emphasis in there. And yet this was a window of a classy shop on Market Street. Sigh.

At the flower show, in the booth belonging to the National Ivy League: "kids'll will eat ivy too." Um?

Also at the flower show, in the booth of the African Violet people: "Scientist's and the government of Kenya..." Stop. Just stop there. Oy.

Some days are just not good for the grammar.