Every day, thousands
of apostrophes are needlessly used and/or forgotten by people who can’t tell
the difference between their “yɔr”s. This tragedy needs to stop, and it is in
the power of anyone with a working knowledge of the language to help us fix the
problem. All too often, I see little helpless apostrophes laying on the side of
the keyboard, screaming out at anyone who will listen: “Help me! I don’t belong
here!” Lynne Truss, in her book Eats,
Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, has a
wonderful chapter on the apostrophe, including several *ahem* “creative”
suggestions on what to do with the infidels that use them incorrectly. *All
hail Lynne Truss, master of the apostrophe and of the armed panda*. (This last bit
is in reference to the panda joke that is in the title. That story will come
later or it can be Googled.)
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