New Support for Apostrophe Warriors
Faithful readers who fume silently at rampant apostropheitis - be it missing apostrophes as in “St. Johns” or gratuitous apostrophes as in “banana’s for sale” - will be pleased to learn that some British municipalities have issued crib sheets on the proper use of apostrophes and other punctuation marks. This article from the Sunday Telegraph includes some amusing howlers.




There’s also the Apostrophe Protection Society
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/