The punctuation enforcer
Reuters reports on a U.K. writer who is defending those apostrophes with her last breath.
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March 31st, 2004 at 10:13 am
A woman after my own heart! :o) Fabulous link, Tom. I think I need to start a new self-help group for certain factions… Apostrophes Anonymous - and that would NOT be Apostrophe’s Anonymous, of course.
March 31st, 2004 at 7:50 pm
Truss, who says she is a stickler for accuracy and not an obsessive pedant, thinks the English have lost touch with the language they invented and gave to the world.
That pedantry accusation is the first resort of scoundrels.