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Fredericton's 'most dangerous intersection' to be turned into roundabout

What's considered the most dangerous intersection in Fredericton is expected to get a lot safer for motorists with a plan to turn it into a roundabout, with work to begin in June and finish in late November. ....

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Subeditor battled to save punctuation's endangered species


Subeditor battled to save punctuation’s endangered species
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JOHN RICHARDS: 1923 - 2021
John Richards, who has died aged 97, was once described as the “Don Quixote of the grammar world”, 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: “Those things over there are my husband’s; Those things over there are my husbands’, and Those things over there are my husbands.” ....

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John Richards, self-confessed pedant and founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society – obituary


Richards, a former newspaper subeditor, provided standard letters that could be sent to correct apostrophe misusers
24 April 2021 • 9:24am
John Richards in 2019, when he left the Apostrophe Protection Society because he felt ‘the barbarians have won’
Credit: Tom Maddick /SWNS
John Richards, who has died aged 97, was once described as the “Don Quixote of the grammar world”, as founder 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: “Those things over there are my husband’s; Those things over there are my husbands’, and Those things over there are my husbands.” ....

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