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 ...

Here are three snapshots from the fall of 2012: The Mitt Romney campaign began distributing this bumper sticker; the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team unveiled a new court design featuring the years ...

Reports this week about the demise of the Apostrophe Protection Society may have been greatly exaggerated. The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 in the UK by retired journalist John ...

Virginia's Kenneth Parent snapped this photo at an Oregon motel this summer. Those apostrophes? You don't need them. (Kenneth Parent) Perspective by John Kelly Punctuation marks don’t come much ...

Until recently, apostrophes were used to form the plurals of abbreviations (MA's), dates (1980's) and words or characters serving as words (if's and but's). Today we don't use an apostrophe with the & ...

A man who led the war on improper use of apostrophes now admits defeat, saying his grammar vigilante campaign has been brought to an end by a culture of carelessness. So what now? The battle is over, ...

Last year, the Apostrophe Protection Society was disbanded, having supposedly failed in its mission. But what is the correct use of the grammatical mark anyway, asks Helene Schumacher. Are you ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sad news from the land of language. After 18 years of campaigning for proper punctuation, the fabulously named ...