Comments on Apostrophe Catastrophes: Lloyds Not Destined for Greatness

You could argue that the bank no longer belongs to...

2009-06-12T01:06:22.074-07:00

You could argue that the bank no longer belongs to the Lloyds, it is a owned by shareholders* but they kept the name "Lloyds Bank" but it is no longer "Lloyds' Bank"

(* Actually a large wedge of it os owned by the government, but that is a different rant.)

I don't think that a company should use bad pu...

2009-06-10T10:30:17.124-07:00

I don't think that a company should use bad punctuation just because many people don't know how to use proper punctuation.

Yikes! It's entirely possible that the compa...

2009-06-10T08:20:16.625-07:00

Yikes!

It's entirely possible that the company removed the apostrophe from its name on purpose. My other half works for Albertsons. I wondered about the apostrophe, and come to find out they used to have one in there, but people got confused (not sure how, but they did), so the company officially removed it.

I think I'd rather see a company remove it than have it abused, though.