Pillow Talk

"What I found at Stein Mart" Part 2:

Ya Ya's:
A group of three or more women whose hearts and souls are joined together by laughter and tears shared through the glorious journey of life.

I've talked about extraneous apostrophe usage before, so you'll understand why this pillow struck me as inappropriate. And it's not just the gratuitous girl-power -- although that's rather annoying, as well.

Here's to a Bad Sign

If you have ever longed to possess a feel-good wall plaque that would impart words of wisdom to your house guests, I have just the store for you. Behold the sagacious sign I found at Stein Mart (one of many!):

Here's to a good woman,
May we know them,
May we be them,
May we raise them.

I will chalk up the creative comma usage to poetic license. But why not simply say, "Here's to good women," and solve the entire agreement problem? Another alternative: Because we don't have to worry about the annoying "him or her" dilemma (we are talking about women, after all), what's wrong with, "May we know her," etc.?

A side note: One could argue the third line should read, "May we be they," much the same way a traditionalist would argue that we should say, "It is I," because the verb "to be" should link noun phrases of the same case. But this sign is clearly a little more homey and colloquial than all that, so let's give it a pass.