Grammatical victory celebrated as English town drops apostrophe ban

It's a grammatical victory for our misunderstood friend, the apostrophe.

The Apostrophe Protection Society is celebrating after a British town reversed its decision to ban the punctuation mark when naming streets, according to the UK Times.

Hold on, perhaps we should back up for a moment. The Apostrophe Protection Society exists and the organization is working relentlessly, right now, to hunt down egregious grammatical errors that are all around us, threatening to irritate copy editors into violence.

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Like when people contract 'It is' to 'Its.'

John Richards decided to turn that rage into productivity. He founded a society that would stand up for the tiny punctuation mark, asserting its place in contractions and fighting for its right to stay out of that awkward space before the letter 's' in plural words.

The public has sent examples of such mistakes to the group, which publishes them online.

So, when Mid Devon council proposed banning apostrophes from street signs to avoid confusion for GPS users, according to the CBC, Richards told them the idea was ridiculous. And they changed their minds, to the delight of grammar teachers everywhere.

Thankfully, the society didn't take the route reported in a satirical NewsBiscuit story by taking to the streets and vandalizing signs with double apostrophes.

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Good behaviour, good grammar. This group has earned a gold star.