Jolly apostrophe sticklers may also be in short ... Torture indeed, and no poetry in sight. Joanne Anderson is The Age’s chief desk editor and author of Writely or Wrongly: An unstuffy guide ...

I noticed a letter over the signature "William H. Arnoux," which contained this statement: "The apostrophe 's' is an abbreviation of the pronoun his, and it was once so written, as is found in the ...