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Is Punctuation Finished?

WORDS Posted: September 3, 2020 12:26 pm

Enter the international Apostrophe Protection Society, with its attempts to call out misuse and spread good practice. But November 2019 saw the announcement of the society’s demise, and owing not only to the highly respectable age of its founder John Richards (96): it would close, the society said, because of the ‘ignorance and laziness present in modern times’. – Aeon

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WORDS Published: 09.02.20

Read the story in Aeon Published: 09.02.20

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