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Unloved and ignored: Our poor apostrophe!

Written April 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

From time to time I have tried to provoke my fellow fans of the English language by calling for the abolition of the apostrophe, especially when it’s used to denote the possessive or genitive case of a noun. Looks like I could have saved myself the trouble.


 
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