In praise of the humble apostrophe
This is a revised version of a piece that I originally posted, on the previous manifestation of In my own write, in March 2012. That post was entitled “Whose doing it? Your doing it. And its going to cause an argument”, which I thought was a reasonably witty way of drawing attention to the modern disease of misusing the apostrophe. However, my attempt at humour, such as it was, backfired when a couple of people wrote to me. One pointed out that I had misused the apostrophe in