It turns out Financial Times columnist Sarah O’Connor’s name is not machine-readable. But she finds a certain subversive ...

The apostrophe is out to get you. That innocent-looking little punctuation mark you learned about in elementary school has been plotting against you all your life. It’s not like the hyphen ...

The apostrophe is the sign (’) used in writing to show that certain numbers or letters have been left out as in ‘don’t’ (do ...

More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It’s a problem familiar to O’Connors, D’Angelos, N’Dours and D’Artagnans across America.

After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best efforts, he says, he lost the battle for proper ...

Small yet mighty Apostrophe focuses on a few things only, and it does them well. This also has the side effect of the app being incredibly lightweight and efficient. It opens and shuts in seconds ...

While cautioning about the difference in meaning between “parent organization” and parents’ organization,” the University’s style manual also notes, “The Office of the Board of Regents has adopted a ...

Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway, asks Helene Schumacher.

'The apostrophe shouldn't be there, no,' admits a jolly man on the end of the line. 'It would appear to be human error, though rogue apostrophes do seem to be increasingly prevalent.

The period from 1980 to 1989 is not the 1980’s. It’s the 1980s. You can use an apostrophe to stand in for the dropped 1 and 9: ’80s. But it’s still wrong to write 80’s. Simple, right?