Last night was a gorgeous spring evening, and as I drove home from a late evening meeting, I noted that the ladies of the evening wore their summer togs, i.e., not much. I sent a text to a friend, "The hos are wearing very little this evening."
He queried, "Hos?" I explained that I wasn't speaking of garden implements, and was not quite sure of an accurate spelling.
He replied and told me that "Ho's" was the correct term, to which I groaned and ranted...
"APOSTROPHES NEVER GO WITH PLURALS!" I also very kindly reminded him that we have now HAD that discussion on several occasions. He claimed that since it was slang, it didn't matter.
Apostrophes for plurals and punctuation outside of quote marks are my two chief vexations as a writer. Good writers learn these rule, of this I'm sure, but from time to time, we apparently lose our brains and forget.
I have a short list of stupid things for which I will go to the mat. I bet you do, too. I will throw it down to defend against incorrect use of the apostrophe any damned day.
I'm thinking that the hos need to steal the hard vowel mark from the Vietnamese so that ijit Americans will quit mispronouncing pho and say it correctly as phuh. But, as with the umlaut, the hard vowel sound sign is just not readily available.
Shitgoddamn. Yapping dogs on the pant legs of life. At least they remind us we are alive.
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