'Ignorance wins' as UK apostrophe society shuts down

Britain's Apostrophe Protection Society is closing down, its founder has announced, saying it had sadly lost the fight against "ignorance and laziness".

Former journalist John Richards, 96, started up the society in 2001, aiming to preserve the correct use of what he said was the "much abused punctuation mark". Mr Richards spent the last quarter of his career as a sub-editor, preparing journalists' copy for the newspaper -- a task which often involved correcting their use of apostrophes.

When he retired, he kept spotting the same glaring mistakes in daily life and decided to take action, seeing the apostrophe as an endangered species in need of protection."One is that at 96 I am cutting back on my commitments and the second is that fewer organisations and individuals are now caring about the correct use of the apostrophe in the English language," he wrote on the society's website.

"We, and our many supporters worldwide, have done our best but the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!"It gives a simple guide to readers, with examples of how apostrophes are used to denote missing letters and possession but never plurals.

It being in trouble for a long time, people are just been stupid.

I heard the founder is having colon problems.....

U wot M8

Pobody’s nerfect

BAPS is now out of fashion - what will Belfast people do for their breakfast?

Lets all agree, its not really important to the avg Smith’s and Jones’ world’s, isnt it?🙄

You think hed get it right. Its “lazines’s”.

lazza_mcgazza 😮

'Fuck'...... 😳

Grammatical mistake’s are, possible; - the worst.

Founder has expressed his desire to get back to his more exciting hobbies of stamp collecting, train spotting and morris dancing.

Too lazy to finish your sentence with a full stop?

This is just ridiculous I wish it were different,,,

Cant believe its happening

RTE just loves it's UK 'news',n'est-ce pas?

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