Christmas Card PSA

[hellziggy]

OK people. I know some of you are doing Christmas cards. For *insert diety here*'s sake, when you put the family name, DON'T USE AN APOSTROPHE!!!!
correct: The Smiths
incorrect: The Bush's
correct: The Stewarts
incorrect: The Cheney's
correct: The Snyders
incorrect: The Schneider's

If you do, I will be focused on how much it annoys me rather than how cute the picture of you/your kids/your pets is.
Thank you.

p.s. If your name ends in "S", it doesn't matter what you do because that one always confuses me.

Comments

[realsarah.livejournal.com]

and if I want to talk about their cat?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Then I would assume you would actually use the word cat, as in "The Snyder's cat Lump is the coolest cat ever!"
My rant is mostly about people who send photo cards and the card has the family name printed on it. We got one from Rick's cousin and it was printed as "The Smith's" and I just wanted to scream!!! When I worked at the photo lab over Xmas we were told that was wrong and to watch for it and then suggest to people that they should change it. We even had a cute little "how to do your cards" sheet that pointed out why it was wrong.