Saturday marks National Punctuation Day, the 13th observance ... the sight of the plural word ‘Book’s’ with an apostrophe in it will trigger a ghastly private emotional process similar ...

apostrophe mistakes are “high on the list of things people peeve about.”) “Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation,” she writes. “No matter that ...

The apostrophe — the punctuation mark, not the parenthetical form of speech directed at one person — will never die as long as copy editors and auto-correct programs value it, Katy Steinmetz ...

Punctuation basics are easy. A period ends a sentence. A comma represents a pause. A quotation mark indicates a quotation. An apostrophe shows possession. Most people get that. But the finer ...

The apostrophe is not a punctuation mark. It doesn’t punctuate. Punctuation marks are placed between units (sentences, clauses, phrases, words, morphemes) to signal structure, boundaries ...

This Robin Hood of punctuation wants to steal from the apostrophe rich (“menu’s,” “Golden Deliciou’s,” “chip’s and pea’s,” “sausage’s, roll’s, egg’s”) and give to the ...

Those apostrophes? You don't need them. (Kenneth Parent) Perspective by John Kelly Punctuation marks don’t come much smaller than the apostrophe. Yet this teensy dot of ink can sure cause a lot ...

Punctuation arouses strong feelings ... smaller battles over the use of the apostrophe feel like they can be won.

A rogue resident added an apostrophe with a marker pen "Proper punctuation" will return to North Yorkshire's street signs after a cull of apostrophes had previously been announced, a senior ...

The problem, punctilious observers argued, was that the nearby church is and always will be St. Mary’s — with an apostrophe, thank you very much — and leaving that bit of punctuation out of ...