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I Am Annoyed By the Misuse of the Apostrophe

I often think I am among the last generation of children (here at least) to have been schooled in the correct use of the apostrophe.

It seems society varie's between sticking it before every "s" or omitting it completely including instance's where it should be correctly used, as in "the mans car".

How often have you seen a sign advertising "apple's and orange's"

Maximum respect going out to the Apostrophe Protection Society! (http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/)

Power to the hand of the Grammar Vigilante! (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3242582/word-vigilante-night-correct-signs-apostrophes/)

Boycott retailer's who dont know how to use it correctly!
Turn your back on "Amy's Nail's"!

R u with me coz u kwim?

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MartinII · 70-79, M

And another thing. My surname contains an apostrophe, but many websites refuse to allow apostrophes. Sometimes, if I am told "enter your name exactly as it appears on your credit card", that proves to be impossible.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@MartinII
A lot of the bad English now appearing is forced by Microsoft adding automatic "correction" or prediction that mirrors its programmer's individual taste and level of literacy.

As well as the problem you cite, it is extremely difficult to describe more than one "forum" elegantly because MS does not know how Latin or Greek rooted plurals work.

It is equally hard to write proper-noun abbreviations too, because some programmer had not been taught such things - I wonder if the Civil Service organisation, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, uses "Dstl" rather than the proper DSTL because MS 'Word' especially, finds the concept too hard to grasp.

(I encountered an amusing side of how too much computing can b****r things up needlessly, when my then-employer's directors were bamboozled by "marketing consultants" into buying a very expensive "corporate font". It was virtually indistinguishable from Calibri or Ariel already standard on everyone's computers, and like them, sans-serif so equally ugly when in a solid block of text; further, the text would not appear in that font if transmitted electronically to, say, a customer!)