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December 16, 2006

Apostrophes: Random, Rampant and

Wherever you look, you will find examples of the misuse of apostrophes; the most common example is to insert an apostrophe before the letter 's' in a plural word, but apostrophes are often misused even where they are needed. Whether it matters depends on your audience: most native English speakers will know that something is wrong, and just mark you down as ignorant. But you will certainly cause real problems for the huge numbers of readers whose native language is not English. If you want to avoid turning away thousands of eager customers, read

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Posted by Bob at December 16, 2006 12:30 PM