Call them signs of the times: “Orange’s for sale”; “Bennys Pub”; “Nigels special pudding’s.” Apostrophe catastrophes like these are rampant on signs across Great Britain, and retired newspaper copy ...
Last week, I began my column with an "uh-oh!" It's "uh-oh" redux today. When I saw the telecast on one of the local news channels Monday morning, I said "Uh-oh!" The story was about an injured Cedar ...
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 ...
A group of self-confessed 'punctuation pedants' have won in a year-long campaign to get the apostrophe on their street sign restored after the local council swapped it with one which was grammatically ...
WEGMANS doesn’t have an apostrophe – and it’s got nothing to do with accurate punctuation but linked to a big change almost 91 years ago. The grocery chain, which opened in 1916, has more than 100 ...