Do you know an O'Sullivan or O'Neill in your life? This apostrophe in surnames holds a deep meaning in the roots of Irish ...

Welcome to the Wild West of possessive punctuation. After 18 years, the Apostrophe Protection Society has been disbanded by its founder and chairman, retired journalist John Richards. Despite his best ...

After VERIFYING how to spell canceled (with one l or two), a viewer asked us to VERIFY another grammar inquiry you might have been breaking for years. Beth Miller from Guilford County asked, "Why ...

The apostrophe is out to get you. That innocent-looking little punctuation mark you learned about in elementary school has been plotting against you all your life. It’s not like the hyphen, which is ...

Re “Some People Can Get Very Possessive About Apostrophe’s,” Commentary, Dec. 16: For years I have railed and groused about this problem of using apostrophes to indicate plural nouns, but it has only ...

Slowly but surely, the apostrophe has been forgotten or purposely left behind in an increasing array of words. The very public feuding over public places and punctuation is here again — and it's been ...