Our gym isn’t so much clean as it is “clean”

Couldn’t finish the year out without one more photo of unnecessary quotation marks.

It really is a nice thought. It just doesn’t need to be between quotation marks.

A new breed of unnecessary apostrophe

Look! It’s unnecessary quotation mark’s ugly cousin, the unnecessary apostrophe. Usually only spotted preceding an “s,” this is a rare and exciting find.

More unnecessary quotation marks

I posted about this nerdy pet peeve of mine awhile back. Here it is rearing its ugly head again, this time accompanied by its friend, Unnecessary Capitalization.

(I haven’t won yet.) This extraneous punctuation got me thinking about people’s natural tendency to over-complicate things like names and logos, not to mention products and product features. Why is it so difficult to make things simple? And is simplicity really what we want, anyway?

Pet peeve: unnecessary quotation marks

said the store owner.

And is that an apostrophe in “restroom’s”? The unnecessary quotation marks are a pretty common error on signs, but I still find it amusing. In fact, I’ve never understood why the mistake is so common.

Turns out there’s a whole blog dedicated to them—The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.