Local council in England to remove apostrophes from road signs because Computer Says No

North Yorkshire Council is unilaterally altering English grammar because its database is frightened of apostrophes. Accordingly, the pesky punctuation marks are being removed from road signs going forward. St Mary's Walk will be signposted as St Marys Walk, and so forth. — Read the rest

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