Call them signs of the times: “Orange’s for sale”; “Bennys Pub”; “Nigels special pudding’s.” Apostrophe catastrophes like these are rampant on signs across Great Britain, and retired newspaper copy ...

Reports this week about the demise of the Apostrophe Protection Society may have been greatly exaggerated. The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 in the UK by retired journalist John ...

Last week, I began my column with an "uh-oh!" It's "uh-oh" redux today. When I saw the telecast on one of the local news channels Monday morning, I said "Uh-oh!" The story was about an injured Cedar ...

WEGMANS doesn’t have an apostrophe – and it’s got nothing to do with accurate punctuation but linked to a big change almost 91 years ago. The grocery chain, which opened in 1916, has more than 100 ...

On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English. England's second-largest city has decided to drop apostrophes from all its street signs, saying they're confusing and ...

You don't have to go to the greengrocer's to spot them. Errant apostrophes are springing up everywhere. And while their misuse is among our most common grammatical mistakes, it is also the most ...

A local authority has been criticised for banning apostrophes on new street signs. The move by North Yorkshire Council is being made to avoid problems with computer systems. All new street signs will ...

Lynne Truss fears the English language could be in its death throes. Proper, written English, that is — the kind with correctly placed apostrophes, elegantly positioned semicolons, commas in all the ...

A man who led the war on improper use of apostrophes now admits defeat, saying his grammar vigilante campaign has been brought to an end by a culture of carelessness. So what now? The battle is over, ...

Apostrophes are equal opportunity humiliators. As I wrote recently, apostrophes incriminate less-word-savvy types by popping up in plurals like “We play bridge with the Smith’s” and “He had two ...