In the little town where we used to live, there is a small building, in which a collection of stores has come and gone over time, of various levels of success. It's the sort of location you would think would be perfect for a tiny little store, but which has proven difficult for anyone to hold on.
One of the later incarnations at the site was a store that sold things for horses and riders. I cannot remember the name of the store now, but the sign on the window will be burned forever in my memory. Every time we drove by that shop, we could not tear our eyes away from these words, painted on the storefront window: "Everything for Horse's." And every time we drove by, we had to then ask the obvious question. "Everything for Horse's What?"
We joked with friends about staging a midnight punctuation intervention, sneaking down with razor blades in the dark of night to scrape the offending apostrophe off the window. Eventually, someone must have clued them in, and the apostrophe was removed, but not until several months had gone by.
Soon after this, the store closed and the bakery on the corner decided to expand and took over the space. But the window sign has stuck in our heads ever since, and we regret not having taken a picture of it when we had the chance. And when we decided to create this joint blog to chronicle other examples of 'worser English', that sign came immediately to mind. So here we are, providing you all the entertaining examples of poorly placed aspotrophes, extraneous quotation marks, humorous spelling errors, and every other example of bad grammar we can find - all in honor of the sign that made us ask, on a daily basis, "Everything for the Horse's What?"
