Donating the profits to help global efforts in fighting the COVID-19 outbreak: If one believes in lending a hand during these trying times, results in being happier, more productive and more ...

Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. But it doesn’t take much to get ...

Wednesday was a dark day for the apostrophe, used in the English language to indicate the possessive case ("Joe's Pub") or a contraction ("I'm here."). In New York, apostrophes took center stage in ...

Welcome to the Wild West of possessive punctuation. After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best ...

Apostrophes are flooding the market – and mostly in all the wrong places. Old time teachers of English grammar must be turning over in their graves. Even some writers and editors seem unaware of the ...

He walks softly and carries a big stick. He uses it to make marks that look like little sticks. He prowls the streets at night, terrorizing shopkeepers and sign makers alike. But I’m betting regular ...

When Frank Zappa, shall we say, “punctuated” the '70s with his Apostrophe (‘) album, it was, amazingly, already his eighteenth studio or live release over a span not quite as long as a decade. Any way ...

Picture this: A music reviewer makes a reference to the song “Space Truckin’” by Deep Purple. You want to quote him on it. Specifically, you want to quote a sentence in which the writer just happened ...

Let's say it's Hallowe'en, you're in Hawai'i, and you're doing t'ai chi while reciting the Qur'an. The obvious question is: What's up with all those apostrophes? Seriously, why not just do tai chi in ...

When you edit the HTML code on your company's website, you can enter any character that's on your keyboard simply by typing the corresponding key. To make a straight apostrophe, type the apostrophe ...

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