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What? You don't have word police? We certainly have them over here. Actually, I think the funniest jumping-through-hoops performances can be seen in biblical translations, and you no doubt have the kind I mean. The psalms, for example, which are sooo repetitive already, are now pronoun-free (read gender-neutral), so you see things like "God leads God's people to God's...". Does wonders for poetic flow.

Re gender-neutral -- the move to replace "man" with "person" resulting in abominations such as "chairperson".
Even Chambers waffles on that one.

How about woman -> woperson? No, still has a male component, "son".
OK, I've got it: woperdaughter! Everyone happy now?

More re the apostrophe enigma, short & simple:

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp

I got flak once about North American heathens & their perversion of the Queens' English (Royal "We" ?). q-;

Definitely UK:
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/page2.html

Also, they don't have 'actresses' in the theatre any more. Male or female, they're all 'actors' now...

Some people don't like putting an "s" directly after a number or a capital letter - when did you last see the plural of "CD" without its unwanted apostrophe (CD's)?

You were right about opening a can of worms Rambler, a catering can!

I’m a bit worried about no actresses. “As the Bishop said to the actor” has a whole new meaning.

Once all actresses were actors.Or acTORS as some insist on saying.

Have aa amusing book "Politically Correct Bedtime Stories", with frog's and princess's. The former was once a real estate developer.....

Sorry, finger trouble, "an" not "aa"
Also should be "actresses"

I usually say "as the B said to the A" anyway. Phew!

The youngsters appear to have circumvented the bishop actress/actor problem by replacing the whole expression with "that's what she said". Still a gender issue there though. Jws, I don't see your problem with 'the bishop said to the actor' - the bishop is probably a woman!