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 ...

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 ...

An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are some easy-to-follow rules for using an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. An apostrophe might be tiny, but used correctly, it adds clarity and ...

A group of self-confessed 'punctuation pedants' have won in a year-long campaign to get the apostrophe on their street sign restored after the local council swapped it with one which was grammatically ...

As 2025 winds down, June Casagrande writes about the correct punctuation for all the holidays to come in 2026.

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 ...