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Birmingham, England Eliminates Use of Apostrophes...Ja'Larry Byrd Fumes


Friday, January 30, 2009




Joe G. writes:

C'lay

You need to read this if you haven't already.

This has to be a major step back in our efforts to promote the apostrophe's greatness, especially because of your strong notoriety in the U.K. The part of the article that jumped out at me most was this:

"John Richards, founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, said the decision was 'absolute defeatism'."

How have you not taken over as president of this society? Or at the very least, we need to hold a new election.

From the article:


Its a little difficult to place sometimes, but if itd never been invented our sentences wouldnt be so easy to read and wed all get confused because we wouldnt know who owned anything.

But the apostrophe is obviously just too challenging for some.

Birmingham City Council has dropped possessive apostrophes from its road and street signs altogether - so St Paul's Square becomes St Pauls, for example.

The decision follows years of debate about whether apostrophes should be restored to local place names such as Kings Norton, Acocks Green and Druids Heath.

The authority says the decision was taken to achieve a consistent standard across the city.


Honestly, I'm crushed. The country that could withstand the Blitz can't handle the apostrophe. For shame, England, for shame. I'm sad to be a bestselling author in your country. And I'm all for a coup to overtake the Apostrophe Protection Society.

It's clear that America and England are two apostrophe ships passing in the night. Here the apostrophe is ascendant, there--well, the apostrophe is dead. Let's all shed a tear.

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