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In reply to the discussion: For those who still don't know that plurals in English are generally not spelled with an apostrophe [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Buy a copy of the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss. At least in the edition I have, it includes a punctuation repair kit. There are several sheets with gum-backed punctuation marks of varying sizes that you can peel out of the kit and stick onto signs where they're needed. (Perhaps your local theater is showing the film Two Weeks Notice and you want to add the missing apostrophe.) For cases like the one you describe, the kit includes other stickers reading "The Panda Says No!" that can be used to cover improper apostrophes and the like.
Her iconic panda is the one that walks into a bar, gobbles down some pretzels, fires a gun twice into the air, and turns around to go out. The startled bartender asks, "Wait, what was that all about?" The panda replies that, according to the encyclopedia, a panda eats shoots and leaves.