Under 'Misuse' the Wiki page on the apostrophe has the following:
A 2004 report by OCR, a British examination board, stated that "the inaccurate use of the apostrophe is so widespread as to be almost universal". A 2008 survey found that nearly half of the UK adults polled were unable to use the apostrophe correctly.Certainly it's like shooting fis'h in a barrel to find thes'e nowaday's.
Some have argued that its use in mass communication by employees of well-known companies has led to the less grammatically able assuming it to be correct and adopting the habit themselves.
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James
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