When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...
ALL of us surely already know that in English, possession of something can be denoted by simply adding an apostrophe and an "s" to most singular nouns, as in "the candidate's persona," "that woman's ...
Mark Twain’s encounter with a particular foreign tongue inspired an essay called “The Awful German Language.” Welcome to a new feature of this column. We won’t call it “The Awful English Language.” ...
The holiday card season is about to start. Now's a good time for an apostrophe refresher, according to grammar expert June ...
It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring ...
Rep. Steve Harrelson, a Democrat in the Arkansas legislature, yesterday introduced a resolution to declare the correct way to write the possessive form of the state's name. That would be, he says, ...
LITTLE ROCK — The pronunciation of the state name is enshrined in state law, and now a top member of the House of Representatives wants to declare a particular way of spelling the name's possessive ...
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