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There is a society known as the Apostrophe Protection Society.
You can find it on the web.

I think Eats, Shoots and Leaves should be compulsory reading for everyone! I see she writes for SAGA magazine now. (When I was in the travel industry, we used to call them SEND A GRANNY AWAY but now I'm a wrinkly myself, I love their magazines.

Have looked at The Joker's site which is here:

http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/

I tried to register and page wouldn't load. Drat, damn and blast.

There's also a sentence with the word 'had' eight consecutive times:
'Where John had had 'had', Tom had had 'had had'. 'Had had' had had the teachers' approval.' It doesn't addd anything to the apostrophe argument,just a bit of fun.(and it's useful to show the difference between the two tenses).

Actually I meant to type 'teacher's', but it makes sense either way.

aristophanes, you certainly have, and Chips, after I posted I realised whatI'd done, and hoped no one would notice. Maybe you should change your name to hawkwye! ;0)

Wendy I was told Saga stood for sexually active grandparents abroad, but that might not be true!

Sallyw - maybe even Hawkeye?

5 consecutive "ANDs"
The owner of the ROSE AND CROWN pub had a new sign painted for his pub. On completing the job, the sign writer asked the owner for his opinion. The owner replied, "It's okay, but I would like bigger spaces, between ROSE and AND, and AND and CROWN."

Hi Wendy,

I looked into this a few years ago and it's called the Greengrocer's apostrophe.

If you google it, you will find a myriad of information about it

Personally I find the lack of an apostrophe and mangling of the words more annoying.
e.g. "your" instead of "you're"
"should of" instead of should've
Makes me cringe every time I see them. Probably caused by sloppy speech.