Rebecca Hazelwood is a writer who puts off writing until she can stand it no longer. She loves poetry. She teaches college freshmen how to write and tries to survive graduate school. She takes a lot of gratuitous pictures of herself. Her past lives (which are never really in the past) include interests in photojournalism, French language and culture, and religious studies. She is native to Kentucky, but she has lived in Missouri and France. Now she lives in Georgia.

She also collaborates on Structure and Style, a new poetry blog.

Michael Rosen: The Politics (and lies) of the Apostrophe (via irunfrombears)

I’m not as tied to the apostrophe as I am to the Oxford Comma, but damn.

Posted at 9:01am and tagged with: grammar, punctuation, apostrophes, Waterstone's, Waterstones,.

Waterstone’s are now Waterstones. They’ve decided to drop the apostrophe. I was asked to go on World at One today to discuss this with John Humphrys. John’s position is that the apostrophe saves us from some ambiguity and this is a good thing. Anything that saves us from some ambiguity is a good thing. What’s more, there are rules. All we have to do is learn the rules. I don’t want to misrepresent him, so apologies if I have.

My position is that the apostrophe is on the way out. It’s an inconsistent item anyway; it was invented by printers - not grammarians or linguists - and like a lot of other ‘rules’ of punctuation is modified by use. No bad thing.
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    Excuse me. “The...is on its way out”?? No.
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