In the debate over whether the apostrophe should be eliminated, there may appear to be connection with real life. However, there isn’t—it can only be classified as a kind of journalistic kabuki. Not ...

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 ...

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

Apostrophes are flooding the market – and mostly in all the wrong places. Old time teachers of English grammar must be turning over in their graves. Even some writers and editors seem unaware of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

I used to think "weer" in the song Mama Weer All Crazee Now was Slade's idiosyncratic spelling of "were", in Black Country dialect (which I am allowed to make fun of because my family originally came ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week we learned that the apostrophe is the punctuation mark which causes most problems. IT firm SpinVox found nearly half of 2000 adults it tested were unable to use the apostrophe properly. The ...