North Yorkshire Council was last week rebuked for axeing apostrophes from road signs, claiming they cause problems when searching online. The Daily Mail's legendary columnist Keith Waterhouse, who ...
Apostrophes are strange little creatures that can cause two words to merge. Uh huh! The apostrophe takes the place of the removed letters. This is how it contracts the two words together. It can't be ...
Iain Wood from Belgium asks: When I went to school, the apostrophe was used to integrate another word, such as 'it's mine' (it is mine). But when the apostrophe was placed AFTER the word, such as ...
A discussion about punctuation marks is like opening the Pandora`s Box. Out come the full stop (.), the comma (,), the semi colon (;), the colon (), the question mark ...
Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway, asks Helene Schumacher. Are you ...
We've all argued about them. Apostrophes. Are you obsessive about possessives? Do you want to deploy your red marker pen every time you see Kings Cross? We thought it was high time for a definitive ...
Last year, grammatical tragedy struck in the heart of England when Birmingham City Council decreed that apostrophes were to be forever banished from public addresses. To the horror of purists and ...
The English language would be better off without apostrophes. Yes, I know thats an extreme statement, and yes, I know its not likely ever to happen. But its true. Heres why. From our morning news ...
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