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In some cases, the stickers cover up erroneous apostrophes, such as the one in a manicurist sign advertising that they do “nail’s.” Other times, he applies a needed apostrophe to signs ...
The move has prompted some resistance, with someone writing an apostrophe on a sign for St. Mary’s Walk. “What’s next?” one North Yorkshire resident asked. “Commas?” By Jenny Gross ...
England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and old-fashioned. But some purists are downright possessive about the punctuation ...
In England they call that the “greengrocer’s apostrophe,” the sort of thing you see in a grocery store where an overeager sign maker has sprayed apostrophes on every plural noun: banana’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The sign jumped out at me through the fog ... But something was missing. The apostrophe. If the mountain was named after Mary, why wasn’t it called Mary’s Peak? Who stole Mary’s apostrophe ...
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 ...
The North Yorkshire Council in England has been in the hot seat recently for its changes to street signs — not because of anything on them, but rather because of something left off. One street ...
Apostrophes are those little floating comma ... [As in] ‘Grandma prefers to sign birthday cards with k’s and h’s instead of x’s and o’s.’“ On the other hand, most writers don ...