A UK society dedicated to upholding the correct use of the apostrophe has shut down.
"With regret, I have to announce that, after some 18 years, I have decided to close the Apostrophe Protection Society," he said on his website."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.
"We, and our many supporters worldwide, have done our best but the ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won!"Mr Richards was driven to start the society upon his retirement as a newspaper subeditor. He said he became"irritated" during his work to witness how often the apostrophe was used incorrectly.
A bio on his website notes:"It constantly amazed him how often reporters, especially the younger ones, seemed to have no idea of the correct use of this very useful little device."
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