Laziness has won!

Posted on December 2, 2019 by adrianstenton

Another piece from the UK Guardian on how the Apostrophe Protection Society has finally given up the unequal struggle!

About adrianstenton

Adrian Stenton is a PhD candidate at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and is currently investigating number concord in the species noun phrase. Adrian is part of the project Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public, which is supervised by Prof Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade.
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1 Response to Laziness has won!

  1. Ingrid Tieken says:
    December 4, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    I just gave a like, but that was only for the post itself. So the apostrophe is on the way out, and prescriptivists have given up their rear-guard battle. Is that a good or a bad think, I’d like to know? What do readers of this blog think? Perhaps, Adrian, we could do a poll on this?

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