Saturday, December 07, 2019

Requiem for the Levitating Comma

Youre probably not alarmed to  learn that, after almost two decades, the founder of The Apostrophe Protection Society has decided to give up the fight. You may continue to use the apostrophe not at all when texting. But to avoid the complete loss of the once useful punctuation mark, do observe the post-industrial custom of putting an apostrophe before “s” when creating a plural.

Some us will miss the properly deployed apostrophe, a second-rate comma that tried to rise in the world.