In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

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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 ...

That’s it. I’m at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, “my rope’s end” — because what I’m so worked up about is the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe. The ...

After VERIFYING how to spell canceled (with one l or two), a viewer asked us to VERIFY another grammar inquiry you might have been breaking for years. Beth Miller from Guilford County asked, "Why ...

Somewhere out there, in the teachers’ lounge at a teachers college, people are chatting and laughing and sipping coffee — blissfully unaware that they’re living exhibits in the Weird Punctuation Hall ...

Last year, grammatical tragedy struck in the heart of England when Birmingham City Council decreed that apostrophes were to be forever banished from public addresses. To the horror of purists and ...