On Street Names Signage Elsewhere in the "Anglosphere" and How Apostrophes Relate to That

[dewline]

dduane happened to spot this today:

http://arbroath.blogspot.ca/2013/03/council-bans-apostrophes-from-new.html

I don't know that good punctuation is an exclusively British characteristic, but I also shudder to think of the consequences of banishing the apostrophe to the memory hole.

How about you?

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[dewline.livejournal.com]

Had to look that one up! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greengrocers%27_apostrophe#Greengrocers.27_apostrophes)