One of the great questions of American life comes up whenever we have a day in celebration of mothers, fathers, presidents, or veterans: Where do you stick the apostrophe? Should there even be an ...
When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...
On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an ...
The English language would be better off without apostrophes. Yes, I know thats an extreme statement, and yes, I know its not likely ever to happen. But its true. Heres why. 1. Most of them dont add ...
It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring ...