Article: APOSTROPHE LOSING ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.(News/National/International)

Encyclopedia entry: APOSTROPHE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      700+ words ... ... second, which has the apostrophe of omission: by and large, the use of two apostrophes close together (as ... s , although such apostrophe-free forms as the ... Washington Irving used apostrophes in only 38% of the ... x2018;The Ambivalent Apostrophe’, English ...

Article: The apostrophe: its uses and abuses: pity the poor ...
Writing!;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Here's how to use the apostrophe correctly. Apostrophes in Contractions One of the apostrophe's jobs is to replace ... Plurals of letters take apostrophes ("I got all A's."). Fight the apostrophe catastrophe that seems ...

Article: APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE!
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... contained a stray apostrophe? Caught up in ... utterly extraneous apostrophes were doing there ... of the Aberrant Apostrophe). I decided to spend a day policing apostrophes. Surely if people ... documentary on apostrophes the other week ... confused about the apostrophe is that it is ...

Article: CONTRACTIN' THE `APOSTROPHE CURSE': I GO TO LUNCH AT A ...
Sun Publications (IL);  December 21, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... the owner that the apostrophe in his sign is incorrect ... continues. Misplaced apostrophes accost me in menus ... precious resources of apostrophes? 2) Should I launch ... charity called "Save the Apostrophe's"? 3) Do sign-makers charge extra for apostrophes? A recent Blackman ...

Article: Narrative apostrophe: reading, rhetoric, resistance in ...
Style;  September 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... significantly - and bizarrely - the apostrophe bears two "addresses ... will not. Covertly, an apostrophe is meant to provoke response ... to say, the convention of apostrophe is to differentiate between ... put it yet another way, apostrophes are messages uttered with ...

Article: Stamp out apostrophe abuse!(grammar slammer)
Writing!;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... there is the Apostrophe Protection ... you see apostrophes where they ... Treat your apostrophes with respect ... Stamp out apostrophe abuse! NEVER ... errors in apostrophe use. Fix them by adding apostrophes in appropriate ...

Article: PROFILE THE APOSTROPHE When theyre gone, well all be ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  February 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the French), the apostrophe continues to defeat ... would no longer use apostrophes on street signs. Councillor ... Why so hard? The apostrophe only has two real functions ... Bernard Shaw denounced apostrophes as "uncouth bacilli ... its death bed, the apostrophe has slipped - hastened ...