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 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 ...

Apostrophes are the curly floating commas in sentences that usually indicate possession or a contraction. There are a few set phrases and holidays, however, that also use apostrophes. In fact, ...

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 ...

We've all argued about them. Apostrophes. Are you obsessive about possessives? Do you want to deploy your red marker pen every time you see Kings Cross? We thought it was high time for a definitive ...

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 ...

Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway, asks Helene Schumacher. Are you ...

For a certain kind of language critic, highlighting errors of punctuation is a sport unto itself. It is rare for a week to go by without some kind of punc-mark complaint gracing my inbox. "What has ...