When I saw “men’s’ clothing” with two apostrophes, I figured it must be a typo. I was editing a professional writer who’s been on the job for years, and I know from experience that writers make typos, ...

If you have a good grasp of apostrophes, you probably notice that a lot of other people don’t. You could be forgiven for rolling your eyes at sentences like “The dog wagged it’s tail,” which ...

On October 22nd, at 2:50 P.M., @APStylebook tweeted a series of guidelines about how to punctuate possessives of nouns that end in “S”: “For possessives of plural nouns ending in s, add only an ...

Apostrophes are those little floating comma shapes that denote contractions and possessives, and that sometimes even make words plural. They’re tiny, they’re tricky, and yes, the way you use (or ...

One of the great questions of American life comes up whenever we have a day in celebration of mothers, fathers, presidents, or veterans: Where do you stick the apostrophe? Should there even be an ...

It could go down in history as the Arkansas Apostrophe Act of 2007. Or maybe “Arkansas’s Apostrophe Act of 2007.” Last month, the Arkansas State Legislature passed a non-binding resolution declaring ...