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Subeditor battled to saved punctuation s endangered species

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Subeditor battled to save punctuation s endangered species

Subeditor battled to save punctuationâs endangered species Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss May 7, 2021 â 11.45am Save Normal text size JOHN RICHARDS: 1923 - 2021 John Richards, who has died aged 97, was once described as the âDon Quixote of the grammar worldâ, as founder and proprietor of the Apostrophe Protection Society (APS), which he established in 2001 in an attempt to save an endangered species. The usefulness of the apostrophe was memorably made clear when Kingsley Amis, challenged to produce a sentence whose meaning depended on a possessive apostrophe, came up with three versions of the same sentence: âThose things over there are my husbandâs; Those things over there are my husbandsâ, and Those things over there are my husbands.â

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John Richards, founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society, dies at 97

A retired British newspaperman, he founded the Apostrophe Protection Society to guard against the erosion of a humble yet essential element of the English language.

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John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical barbarians, dies at 97

John Richards, bulwark for the apostrophe against grammatical ‘barbarians,’ dies at 97 Emily Langer © Family photo “I think that grammar is a valued part of our civilization,” John Richards declared. “I don’t like any attempt to diminish it.” John Richards, a British newspaperman who attracted a flurry of international attention when he founded and later resignedly disbanded the Apostrophe Protection Society, a self-styled bulwark against the “barbarians” laying waste to a humble yet essential element of the English language, died March 30 at a hospital in Boston, a town in Lincolnshire, England. He was 97. The cause was sepsis, said his son, Stephen Richards. Mr. Richards’s death even some copy editors might disagree on the preferred possessive form of his surname, whether “Richards’s” or “Richards’ ” was previously reported in publications including the Boston Standard and the Lincolnite of Lincolnshire.

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