Today’s word of the day is Fremdschämen. (Wouldn’t you think Woot employees would understand proper use of apostrophes?)
Seems fine to me. Do you not like the '77 part?
I’ll refer you to my other response: Chewie Han '77 - #3 by Lady5tark
As I just wrote in the other thread, using an opening single quote in lieu of an apostrophe (which is identical to a closing single quote) is not an artistic choice, it’s a misunderstanding of how smart quotes are automated in most software. If I type ‘text’ into Microsoft Word, for example, Word assumes I want the word ‘text’ surrounded by smart quotes (open single smart quote, four letters, closing single smart quote). If I type ‘77’ into Word, same thing. But if I type '77 into Word, I actually want an apostrophe there – or I should want an apostrophe there – but Word began with an open quote and it thinks I’m still typing the quote.
Word is (now) smart enough to flip the smart quote around when you hit a single space – it knows that an open single quote followed by two digits is a class year, and it changes the opening single quote into a closing single quote as soon as you hit the space bar. But if you type '77 at the end of your text and don’t hit space – which is presumably what happened here – you get a typo.
While I don’t mean this as snark, if someone alerts you to a typo on a shirt and you don’t understand why it’s a typo, you should ask someone who has better command of English and/or typography, not dismiss the comment. And apologies for waiting eight months to notice your response(s), that’s my fault.
I found this for you: punctuation - When to use opening or closing single quotes - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Artistic freedom, typo, or whatever — most people probably won’t notice or care but yeah when I took a look at the shirt just now I thought …yeah, why is there an opening quotation mark vs a closed one (or single apostrophe)? It’s kind of goofy looking. 