If you’re a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you may have heard the phrase “The Church is perfect, the people in the Church are not.” It’s a sentiment with which I agree, and after spotting the following BA in the Ensign, I’m extending that exception to include the punctuation in the Church too. In the November 2012 Ensign report of Elder Richard G. Scott’s October General Conference talk, we see this:
Ensign – four generation’s
The problematic apostrophe extends across all media formats of the same talk: the Church’s Gospel Library app…
Gospel Library – four generation’s
… and the official LDS.org page for Elder Scott’s talk.
lds.org – four generation’s
In the talk, Elder Scott was quoting from the journal of his late wife. Perhaps the BA originally came from Jeanene Scott’s journal, or from Elder Scott himself, but I don’t blame either of them, even if this is the case. I do blame the Church’s copy editors, who usually clean up grammar and punctuation in stuff like this before it gets released to the public.
Source: lds.org
