Apostrophe Man

11/06/2024

28/05/2024

My personal experience is you always need to be wary of people who play brass.

25/05/2024

My wife complains when I carry her over my shoulder.

01/05/2024

What's in a font?

22/04/2024

They clearly have excellent genetics in this family.

21/03/2024

With all that apostrophe goodness going on here, it's strange that I am particularly disturbed by "Clutche's".

14/03/2024

Ouch!

13/03/2024

To some extent most languages have little nooks and crannies designed to identify foreigners and isolate them from full entry. English is particularly effective at this, able to exclude even fluent speakers who just don't know the secret codes.

07/02/2024

Strangely gratifying to see how Taylor Swift's new album has sparked a discussion about apostrophes. The answer to the question, by the way, is 'no', the title isn't missing an apostrophe. There are three different options here and each carries a different meaning.

Grammarians wonder: Should there be an apostrophe in “The Tortured Poets Department”?

29/11/2023

First Circle (Limbo): Autocorrect Here wander the otherwise virtuous souls who were forced into grievous errors by autocorrect programs. They sit ...

04/09/2023

Reductive, but funny.

06/07/2023

The horror. 🫣

Source: nimorapi via Twitter

23/06/2023

I guess it's not surprising that PWC would have the police on their minds.

02/06/2023

Staff members at a Wokingham law firm have expressed delight upon discovering that a new joiner is a bit of a stickler for grammar and spelling.

22/04/2023

Brilliant!

12/04/2023

But it doesn't seem to know that you don't put an apostrophe in a plural even if it's an acronym. And if the name of your product contains 'AI' without periods, why would you put 'A.I.' in the headline? Oh, and why the title case or the comma after 'data' rather than a period? Message me, Lucid team.

17/12/2022

But it *is* a pleasant distraction from reality. 🙂

But why not?

(Source: Author Alexander Pennington)

01/07/2022

Is this (a) a whole box of pencils ruined, (b) one bad pencil, or (c) nothing to worry about? I'm leaning towards (a).