Tim Ericson writes:

> A very big pet peeve of mine (my wife says I'm anal retentive) is what I
>  consider frequent misuse of the apostrophe - especially when related to
>  plurals.

I would think that anybody who is "anal retentive" about grammar would care
much more about his colon, or perhaps his appendix, than his apostrophe :-).

Wirt Atmar