“My Burger’s Wallet Was Stolen”

Today, we’re correcting a sign I spotted on the streets of Prague.

I’ve seen many signs with many mistakes all over the world, but it’s unusual to find three mistakes without turning your head. 

So on to mistake number the second two! 

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The next mistake is an apostrophe mistake.

Our restaurateur (someone who owns a restaurant) wrote “burger’s.” 

That’s correct if you want to say a sentence like, “The burger’s wallet was stolen.” 

The apostrophe tells us what belongs to the burger. 

But in these dark times, when burgers have no rights, not even the right to own propert, the right to marry the pizza they love, or the right not to be eaten…

It’s unusual that you would ever need to write “burger’s.” 

Instead, our restaurateur should have written “burgers.” (there are many burgers… more than one… several… plural…) 

Here’s another burger place that got the apostrophe right but must have fallen asleep during the lesson on how to make words plural: