My OH is a bit obsessive about them so perhaps that's why I would prefer just not to use them (except to save granddad of course
)
There is the greengrocers apostrophe -
carrot's, lettuce's, grape's - used to show a plural, but that is completely wrong. I think the possessive
's comes from
John his house, shortened to
John's house, so if the lettuce, carrot or grape doesn't possess something, but is just more than one, then you don't need an apostrophe before the s, or we are looking for the carrot's something.
Then there is the apostrophe used to replace a missed out letter, for example in
it is, shortened to
it's. That's fine - I can do that one. But what about
the dog scratched its leg where I think an apostrophe is wrong - but it could be me whose wrong there, or is it
who's wrong
Too much to think about, life's too short, so if I'm not sure I just don't write them.
Plums - spelling mistakes are fine
Spelling changes over time, it's just a fashion and using a keyboard makes most of us make plenty of mistakes anyway.
It's the same with commas - old texts use far more than we do. But I do like to see a fair quota of full stops before my brain runs out of my ears