Welcome to the Wild West of possessive punctuation. After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best ...
If you have a good grasp of apostrophes, you probably notice that a lot of other people don’t. You could be forgiven for rolling your eyes at sentences like “The dog wagged it’s tail,” which ...
Since Apostrophe spun out of its parent company P’unk Ave in 2019, the company and its small team has been through some evolution on both the development and organizational sides. The South Philly ...
On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English. England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and ...
That’s it. I’m at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, “my rope’s end” — because what I’m so worked up about is the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe. The ...
Today is Veterans Day … or should that be “Veterans’ Day” or even “Veteran’s Day”? This wasn’t even an issue until 1954. Before then, Nov. 11 was called “Armistice Day,” commemorating the signing of ...
What's wrong with Two Weeks Notice? Lynne Truss, the phenomenally successful author of the entertaining 2003 screed against faulty punctuation, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to ...