In the debate over whether the apostrophe should be eliminated, there may appear to be connection with real life. However, there isn’t—it can only be classified as a kind of journalistic kabuki. Not ...

Until recently, apostrophes were used to form the plurals of abbreviations (MA's), dates (1980's) and words or characters serving as words (if's and but's). Today we don't use an apostrophe with the & ...

Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway, asks Helene Schumacher. Are you ...

A discussion about punctuation marks is like opening the Pandora`s Box. Out come the full stop (.), the comma (,), the semi colon (;), the colon (), the question mark ...

Iain Wood from Belgium asks: When I went to school, the apostrophe was used to integrate another word, such as 'it's mine' (it is mine). But when the apostrophe was placed AFTER the word, such as ...

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

I used to think "weer" in the song Mama Weer All Crazee Now was Slade's idiosyncratic spelling of "were", in Black Country dialect (which I am allowed to make fun of because my family originally came ...

An apostrophe for contraction is used when words are shortened. Most of the time, this happens when two words are joined together, and the apostrophe shows where letters have been left out. For ...