The city of Birmingham, England, wants to eliminate apostrophes on municipal signs, so that, say, St. Paul's Square shall be idenitifed on signage as St. Pauls Square.
Words fail. Apostrophes too.
Now, I get all bent outta shape when "people" "use" "quotation" "marks" "inappropriately" on signs. At least those folks seem to love punctuation so much that they go overboard in using it. But just not using it at all? Why stop with apostrophes? Let's throw out semicolons, too -- I hate those bastards.
(I stole my headline from the Telegraph. At least they're still literarily clever.)
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