Thank you... this grammatical f-up and the dead-wrong usage of "literally" keep me up at night.

Calm down, Anthony.

Shishkaberry is clearly the name of the company, and the WHAT is clearly "fruit on a stick". As much as it irritates me when people get it wrong, I don't see evidence of any such thing going on here.

The product is "ShiskaBerry's Fruit on a Stick", just as we see products like "Burger King's Whopper", or "Totino's Frozen Pizza".

I WILL NOT CALM DOWN.

Next time you see these for sale, ask them what they're selling. I'll give you a ripe banana if they say anything other than, "Shishkaberries."

actually it's NOT ungrammatical (well, almost not).

Linguists tend to agree (see Pinker's "the Language Instinct", and others) that non-regular usage disappears in neologisms. So, for example, the Toronto Maple Leafs are not called the Toronto Maple Leaves. This is true even of orthography, so we would expect these products to be called Shiskaberrys rather than Shiskaberries.

Nevertheless, I'll admit, there's little excuse for the apostrophe which now so wantonly pervades the language of the grammatical ignorant, as with the infamous possessive usage of " it's ". Everytime I read something that has it's as a possesive I unfailingly read it as "it is", as in "The Iraqi government has it is own problems

Because all your base are belong to us.

I spose the apostrophe's a little annoying, but they probably just got confused since Shiskaberrys looks a little wrong (not nearly as wrong as with an apostrophe, I'll admit, at least to my eyes).

I love how you started this with your very own apostrophe fuck up. "...since the Mariner's imploded..."

Since the Mariner's what imploded? And which Mariner?
Glass houses Anthony...

Shishkaberry's is the name of the company apparently, but why is its name so much bigger than the name of the product on the packaging? I guess when someone says See's, most people know the subject is chocolate candy.

Someone is on a campaign to redefine the uses of the apostrophe though. There's a sign at work in the break room reminding people to clean up after themselves that drives me crazy: "Please wash your own dish's," it reads.

Mariner's?

Oh, the irony.

@5: I love that too!

This post, by its very title, also raises the whose/who's issue.

Yeah it's annoying to see these its/it's their/there/they're and especially you're/your mistakes, but I think it would behoove us to calm down. Apostrophes don't occur in speech - they're solely in the realm of spelling. These are spelling errors, not grammatical errors.

'between you and I', though, now that's a grammatical error.

We call them Dingleberries, especially at Mariners games where vendors sell them in the stands. "Excuse me sir, what flavor are your Dingleberries?"

WHY DO BERRIES NEED TO BE ON A STICK? We pay migrant laborers many dollars a day to take the berries OFF THE STICK so we can eat them stickless. Jesus Christ.

I don't think it's the name of the company. The packaging says 'the original chocolate dipped fruit on a stick', not 'Shishkaberry's fruit on a stick'.

Why is there an apostrophe in that brand name?

banana their favrit berry (of me)

banana is not berry says I

Excellent use of strikethrough tags.

I first had these at HempFest this year (yum-fucking-tastic, btw) when I bought one for DJ Jimini Cricket (cuz I eated hers :( ), so maybe your hypothesis is closer to truth that you thought...

Anthony, you just Barnetted all over the blog. Please leave pretentious posts to ECB in the future.

Kthx

"but since the Mariners imploded and I stopped going to games"

First time I heard a fair-weather seattle fan actually admit it.

I guess what bothers me so much about "it's" vs. "its" is that I feel like nobody even knows the right spelling... I see it wrong more often than right, and I've definitely had to explain it to people that didn't even know. Computer nerds are the worst I think, which might be why it's so bad because they rule the internets.

Also, at $50 a pop for tickets not even counting concessions, it's pretty hard to be 'loyal' to the mariners, at least for people like me who think that's a lot of money. I go to the Aquasox games sometimes when I'm staying with my parents in Everett; at $7 I don't care how they perform.

Okay, for a second there I thought it said "Shiksaberry's" and couldn't figure out why you didn't think THAT was weird.