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The apostrophe is the only way to make clear you’re talking about the letter. Both style guides agree that when you’re talking about a lowercase letter, you add an apostrophe to make it plural ...
The poor apostrophe. As if things weren’t hard enough for the little mark already, social media and smartphones have made us even less likely to give it a little respect.
More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It’s a problem familiar to O’Connors, D’Angelos, N’Dours and D’Artagnans across America.
Simply tack an apostrophe onto the end of a plural name to make it possessive. Plural first, then possessive. The LA Times provided a few other examples of plural possessives: ...
Small yet mighty Apostrophe focuses on a few things only, and it does them well. This also has the side effect of the app being incredibly lightweight and efficient. It opens and shuts in seconds ...
An apostrophe tells you that the whiskey maker is Jack Daniel, not Jack Daniels, but most people get that wrong anyway.
Slowly but surely, the apostrophe has been forgotten or purposely left behind in an increasing array of words. The very public feuding over public places and punctuation is here again — and it's ...
The weirdness comes courtesy of a single apostrophe, the one in teachers’ lounge, and the conspicuous absence of another in teachers college. And, no, those aren’t errors.
After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best efforts, he says, he lost the battle for proper ...
This topic has obsessed my family ever since Thanksgiving, when we drove down to Wilmington, N.C. This is prime Bojangles territory. Since being founded in Charlotte in 1977, the chain has grown ...
After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best efforts, he says, he lost the battle for proper ...