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 ...

A rogue resident added an apostrophe with a marker pen "Proper punctuation" will return to North Yorkshire's street signs after a cull of apostrophes had previously been announced, a senior councillor ...

FARGO — It's that time of year, Christmas letters from friends bragging about their intelligent, active grandchildren and family pictures. Here is one from the Jensens. But wait, did the Jensens ...

One hundred and eighteen miles north of London, in the town of Boston, England, there lives a retired newspaperman named John Richards who is experiencing an unusually rotten spring. Richards is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

That’s it. I’m at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, “my rope’s end” — because what I’m so worked up about is the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe. The ...

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 ...

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 ...