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Article: The battle for the Lost Apostrophe We join Stefan Gatward - a campaigner against poor grammar in signs - on the hunt for Britain's missing punctuation
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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HE HAS been called a vandal, a graffiti artist and a pedant.
Even his admirers admit he is "a bit of an old codger". But
Stefan Gatward - accountant, former private in the Gordon
Highlanders and now Anglican chaplain - remains unrepentant.
Known as The Apostrophe Man of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Mr Gatward
shot to fame last week after adding a missing apostrophe to the
street signs on his road.
St Johns Close became St John's Close, and overnight Mr Gatward
won respect and derision. While many of his neighbours congratulated
him, the apostrophe was scratched off three days later.
Fearful of an appearance at a magistrates' court, Mr Gatward
decided not to paint in the apostrophe again.
However, ...