Would you trust this man?

I was in a pub recently and I noticed someone behind the bar was wearing a tee-shirt with pictures and writing on it. It somehow nagged at me subconsciously and I couldn't take my eyes off it but I couldn't work out why.

I realised quite quickly that it had on it a word with an extraneous apostrophe, which is enough reason for me to think "I wouldn't wear that" but there was more to it than that. What was it? Then I realised it was a tee-shirt advertising a tattoo artist which bore the word "Tattoo's". Now, I'm not on the lookout for a tattoo artist but if I were I think I would want one who could write better than that, or at least recognised the need for proof reading!

Anniversaries come once a year

I've had it up to here with anniversaries. No, I'm not saying I won't buy my beloved some token gift when the time comes round again, I mean I am fed up with the current fad for the tautology of the "n year anniversary". "Anniversary" comes from the Latin "anniversarius" meaning returning yearly. That in turn is made up of "annus" (year), "versus" (turned, or a turning) and the suffix "-arius" (connected with, pertaining to). There is no need to say "year" when using "anniversary".

Now we might sometimes use anniversary playfully in something like "six month anniversary", which is also wrong but I can accept it as an informal expression and there isn't really a good formal alternative. "Mensiversary" could work, derived from the Latin "mensis" (month) but it won't be widely understood.