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 ...

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, ...

These are dark times for grammar lovers. The Apostrophe Protection Society is giving up. Retired British journalist John Richards, who founded the punctuation preservation group in 2001, has decided ...

Today is Veterans Day … or should that be “Veterans’ Day” or even “Veteran’s Day”? This wasn’t even an issue until 1954. Before then, Nov. 11 was called “Armistice Day,” commemorating the signing of ...

Those of us who respect and appreciate proper apostrophe usage awoke yesterday to some upsetting news: John Richards, one of the most ardent defenders of the correct use of the apostrophe, is giving ...

LONDON – On the streets of Birmingham, the queen’s English is now the queens English. England’s second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they’re confusing ...

Re “Some People Can Get Very Possessive About Apostrophe’s,” Commentary, Dec. 16: For years I have railed and groused about this problem of using apostrophes to indicate plural nouns, but it has only ...

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 ...

Having lain dormant for many months now, my inner Grammar Goddess feels the need to rise up and spread her wings in celebratory and protective guardian-angel mode, this time to pay homage to a fighter ...

For nearly two decades, John Richards dedicated his life to protecting an endangered species: the correctly placed apostrophe. As the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, he waged war against ...

It was a modest proposal to ditch the humble apostrophe. Who’d’ve guessed it’d cause such a fuss? Not the officials in southwestern England whose idea it was to abolish the smudgy little punctuation ...

A small and pedantic society dedicated to preserving the correct use of the "much abused" apostrophe has shut down because its founder says that "ignorance and laziness has won". John Richards, a ...