Just a Pet Peeve

So I'm not sure if this bothers anyone else, but I absolutely hate it when people don't know how to use apostrophes. So here's a quick little lesson. Apostrophes are used to either show possession or to take the place of a letter or letters. For instance, the words "do not" are combined to make the contraction "don't". As you can see, the apostrophe takes the place of the letter "o" in "not".

Now let's continue from there to my actual pet peeve. Many people like to abbreviate the year to the final two digits in the number. First off, there is nothing wrong with that, not if it's done correctly. If I was to say, "I'm so excited for the year 10'!" then I would be like almost every person out there who doesn't know how to use these correctly. In this position, what is the apostrophe taking the place of? Nothing. Because, see, it's SUPPOSED TO BE the 20 that's in FRONT of the 10 in the year 2010. But for some reason, people put it behind and mess it all up. I just want to walk over to the computer or take a pen if it's on paper, and cross out the old one, and put it where it's supposed to go.

I know that like nobody cares about this but me, but I just saw it and wanted to vent somewhere. So thanks Blogger for allowing me vent my feelings in a constructive manner. lol