[lg policy] Apostrophe catastrophe as Cambridge City Council bans punctuation from new street names

[Dave Sayers]

"Grammar gurus have given council chiefs a caning for banning apostrophes from 
Cambridge street names – amid fears they would be too confusing.

Guildhall bosses’ decision to outlaw all punctuation from new road names has been 
branded “deplorable” and condemned as “pandering to the lowest denominator”, 
especially in a city renowned for learning."

Read more: http://goo.gl/YDI9mb

Dave

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Dr. Dave Sayers
Senior Lecturer, Dept Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Honorary Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities, Swansea University, UK
dave.sayers at cantab.net
http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers

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