Malcolm Wood, an English teacher in North Yorkshire, England, did a double take recently as he passed by a quiet road, St. Mary’s Walk. The street’s new sign had no apostrophe. The change, part of the ...

The move is seen by grammar purists as a further encroachment of English into German. Traditionally, apostrophes have not been used to indicate possession in German-speaking countries. The Council for ...

Apostrophes are the curly floating commas in sentences that usually indicate possession or a contraction. There are a few set phrases and holidays, however, that also use apostrophes. In fact, ...

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 ...