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The street’s new sign had no apostrophe. The change, part of the North Yorkshire Council’s move to phase out apostrophes from its street signs, has elicited dissent in Harrogate, a Victorian ...
Grammar campaigners have won a year-long fight to get an apostrophe reinstated on their street sign. Residents were left outraged after the punctuation mark was left off the new road furniture of ...
Apostroph-wahey! Group of long-suffering 'punctuation pedants' celebrate after row with the council to get apostrophe on their street sign restored ...
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 ...
No apostrophe. Around the corner on South Ninth Street another sign stated, “PEOPLE’S PARK.” Apostrophe included. “It’s just for people who notice grammar,” Metro Parks spokesman ...
Apostrophe returns to village sign. Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. We’ve all seen it and cringed: The sign advertising “Antique’s for Sale,” the one in the supermarket ...
Our print society, sign makers, headline writers, and probably e-mailers show in their products that they are generally oblivious of the rules for the correct use of apostrophes. These rules are ...
In a lowercase sign, you would not use an apostrophe. But because the sign is in all caps, the apostrophe is the only way to make immediately clear you’re not talking about something pronounced ...
It opened with a skirmish or two in Bristol more than a decade ago — a superfluous apostrophe scratched off a street sign here, a possessive rendered plural with the stroke of some tape there.
The road into the village of Wembdon was closed in February for six months for improvement works A road sign in a Somerset village containing a rogue apostrophe has been corrected following ...