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Giada Obsesses Over Basil, But Not Apostrophes
Posted on May 27th 2009 by Jillian Madison

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PHOTO’S? Oh dear. Why do so many people think you have to add an apostrophe before the S to pluralize a noun? It’s okay, Giada. Mistake happen. At least you have nice boob’s to fall back on.



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    19 Responses

  1. dan says:

    I bet she makes some good sandwich’s and knows her Italian wine’s!

  2. Special-K says:

    I just cooked some delicious muffin’s! I’m going to bring them to all my friend’s stuck in their cubicle’s tomorrow!

  3. Nice Boob’s indeed!!!

  4. johnmc says:

    Far be it from me to defend a Food Network personality (apart from Alton Brown, Mario Batali or Morimoto), but she may be correct. Photo is a contraction of photograph, but is widely accepted to be a valid and complete word. If she’s using the apostrophe to shorten “photograph”, then she is justified. Wow, I feel dirty. At least I wasn’t defending Mr. Ferry.

  5. Lana says:

    JohnMC, it’s ok. Take a shower, scrub well, have a nice nap and you’ll feel better soon. ;)

    Can someone explain the use of so many …’s instead of a semicolon or period? hmmm?

  6. Grammar Police says:

    Since her first statement is a subordinate clause, a comma would have been the correct punctuation. The last statement could have stood alone as a sentence. The ….s express that she is expressing her thoughts in a less formal manner.

    The correct form of the plural for “photo” would be “photoes”, following the rule that words that end with a vowel are made plural by adding -es. It looks funny, though, and by just adding the “s” would have been better so people wouldn’t think that she was using an ‘s as a possessive.

    I agree with John that the apostrophe could of been used to replace missing letters. At least she spelled “craziness” right; many people forget to drop the “y” and add the “i” before adding the suffix.

  7. Marcus says:

    Not like it’s the biggest deal in the world, but Giada was totally incorrect in her usage of the apostrophe.

    It is only appropriate to write PHOTO’S if you are making the word possessive and are following it with another noun (example: I just erased my photo’s edges.)

  8. Teague says:

    People are over-thinking her use of the language. Somehow I very much doubt she’s that deep.

    Secondly some flunky more than likely wrote the thing. Giada doesn’t get her hands ‘dirty’. Day to day dealings with the common folks is not our pampered princes style.

  9. Bev says:

    I wonder if Giada’s daughter watch’s her show!

  10. Matt says:

    It’s fine, she can get away with it because her rac’k is s’pectacular

  11. Tom says:

    Funny — Giada fell into the Grocer’s Apostrophe trap (Orange’s $1.00) but spelled and used it’s correctly (not its). So on balance a zero!

  12. Kittykitty says:

    As an editor I can tell you it’s incorrect. It’s also a very common mistake, and I’m willing to cut her some slack. BTW, Grammar Police – the phrase is “could have,” not “could of” – also a common mistake.

  13. Barney says:

    Her boobs’ affinity for her is based on of her boob’s pulchritude, not her grammar skills.

  14. a says:

    The first part is a fragment; she just needed to add a subject to make it a correct sentence. I think not-too-smart or just lazy people rely on ellipses so they don’t have to worry about proper punctuation.
    “Photoes” is absolutely not a word, grammar police. Check the OED. “Could of” is also painfully wrong, so your name makes me chuckle.

  15. DAVE says:

    Nice. Round. Boobs. And a tight, trim body. She is THE butterface of all butterfaces.

  16. Grammar Police says:

    Mistakes happen?

  17. Tori says:

    I love the fact that she has 17,000+ followers, and is following ZERO people- what a self-centered biotch! Doesn’t she know she should at least add a few in there to make it LOOK like she cares about other people’s lives?!

  18. dasterly D says:

    Y’all need to grow up

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