Apropos apostrophes

[Mike Salovesh]

This year's Ig Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the Apostrophe
Protection Society and its founder, John Richards.  Further information on
the APS is available at http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/.  I pass along
the reference in recognition of past ADS-L discussions of the "grocer's
apostrophe", or "grocers' apostrophe", or "grocers's apostrophe", or
whatever.

The APS site carries the following explanation:

> The Apostrophe Protection Society was started in 2001 by John Richards, now its > Chairman, with the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently > much abused punctuation mark in all forms of text written in the English       > language.

(For obvious reasons, please don't refer to the APS as "John Richard's
Society".)

Past winners of the Ig Nobel Prize are listed, with links to explanatory
materials online, at

http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2001

> All Ig Nobel Prizes activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable       > Research (AIR). The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Science  > Fiction Association (HRSFA), the Harvard Computer Society (HCS), and the       > Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students (SPS).

Despite rumors that there may be an air of rivalry in some relations
between Harvard and MIT, the universities are united in support of the
noble Igs. This year's related Ig Informal Lectures were delivered at MIT.

-- mike salovesh   <m-salovesh-9 at alumni.uchicago.edu>   PEACE !!!

        IN MEMORIAM:     Peggy Salovesh
        25 January 1932 -- 3 March 2001