I’m positively gobsmacked. Someone at yahoo.com thinks this is right:
I suppose if you were referring to someone whose last name was Simpsons, it would be OK. But the person in question is Jessica Simpson. Where the heck did the extra S come from? And where the heck does Yahoo! get these writers?
October 25, 2012 at 10:18 am
Made me laugh aloud!
October 25, 2012 at 11:53 am
I never know whether to laugh or cry when I see stuff like that on Yahoo. I’m glad at least someone got a laugh out of that.
October 25, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Perhaps that was an article about Matt Groening and Fox parting ways.
We should give them a little credit. At least the apostrophe belonged in there somewhere. That’s an improvement over the unnecessary apostrophe that shows up so often on Yahoo! Or should I say “show’s up.”
October 25, 2012 at 5:03 pm
OK, so they get points for including an apostrophe, although there has to be a deduction for one S too many. I’m thinking the writer couldn’t decide if the possessive referred to just Jessica Simpson, or to both Jessica and her sister Ashlee; therefore the writer hedged bets and made the possessive look like both a plural and a singular. Actually, now I think it’s kinda clever.
October 28, 2012 at 11:22 pm
What’s a possessive?
October 29, 2012 at 11:21 am
Mine is a possessive. A possessive pronoun.