Apostrophe's banished

Barbara Wallraff who writes the blog In a Word for The Atlantic draws attention to the AP's report, Its a catastrophe for the apostrophe. Birmingham, England has banished the use of apostrophes in road signs even when they are grammatically correct.

Read all of Wallraf's post here, and her followup here.

Posted by John B. Chilton on February 11, 2009 11:37 AM | |
Add your comments

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Reminder: At Episcopal Café, we hope to establish an ethic of transparency by requiring all contributors and commentators to make submissions under their real names. For more details see our Feedback Policy.

Advertising Space