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 ...

Admit it. You've been stumped by apostrophes before. There's no shame in it — even for word-savvy types who know all too well the difference between "lets" and "let's" and who can spot a misplaced ...

Manchester Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Alas, the Apostrophe Protection Society is no more. John Richards, who founded the Society in 2001 in order to ...

It was a modest proposal to ditch the humble apostrophe. Who’d’ve guessed it’d cause such a fuss? Not the officials in southwestern England whose idea it was to abolish the smudgy little punctuation ...

The apostrophe is out to get you. That innocent-looking little punctuation mark you learned about in elementary school has been plotting against you all your life. It’s not like the hyphen, which is ...