Getting Possessive- Who's House???

 Possessive Apostrophes. They can be confusing right? The one time the 's' doesn't make the word plural.

They show belonging, but they don't always belong.

Back in high school, my administration took orders for the new t-shirts. They raised a lot of money this way but apparently nobody asked the English department for help.

So on the back of the shirt it was supposed to say "Whose House?" And say "Our House!" on the front. 

But when they came in, just picture it, hundreds of shirts that read, "WHO'S HOUSE?" 

So now instead of declaring just whose house it is, it now reads "Who is house?" I mean, the enthusiasm is great, but that's a whole new sentence and meaning? Will we ever know who House is? 

What's funnier to me is just how many people the design had to go through and they only realized after it was printed. The committee that made the design, the student council, the principal, the student body, the actual printers making the shirts... 

So make sure if you're starting a business or undergoing a major project to get yourself a spell checker. Or just ask a friend, you could save a lot of money and some embarrassment.