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FYI Protect the Apostrophe!

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Paul Whybrow

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John Richards, original champion of the much maligned apostrophe has died.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...7c1994-a425-11eb-a774-7b47ceb36ee8_story.html

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He founded the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001. He disbanded it in 2019 citing his old age of 96, and admitting that “the barbarians had won” with their “ignorance and laziness.”

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