The garden belongs to the neighbour (singular) so needs an apostrophe before the "s".
Same story with the apostrophe: in the 18th-century authors were sprinkling apostrophes over everything.
"The apostrophe is part of the English language so I think it should be upheld, " he said.
What the names committee didn't do in banning the apostrophe was to ban the "s" that follows it.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
Nor did Marc Maria object when denied an apostrophe for "Patriot's Peak, " a nubble he owns in Maine.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
"It seems that a lot of errors revolve around the apostrophe, that eternally misunderstood punctuation mark, " he says.
People here long identified a peak with the old settler, James Cameron, and spelled its name with an apostrophe.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
She says the government not only forgot the apostrophe it named the wrong mountain.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
As TEAL makes its way around America, Deck expects to find endless examples of the lowly apostrophe being misused.
"The apostrophe has a function, " says Thomas Gasque, an English professor who spent years on South Dakota's Geographic Names Authority.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
An apostrophe, the argument goes, implies private ownership of a public place.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
The no-apostrophe rule has been reaffirmed five times, yet punctuationists fight on.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
Print lines by deleting the apostrophe at the beginning of the line.
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He is also a Hawaiian kid with an apostrophe in his surname.
"Take the apostrophe, there is so much confusion over how to use it you have to wonder if it has become dysfunctional, " he says.
Steve Jenner, from the Plain English Campaign, said punctuation, including the apostrophe, was one of the basic rules of language and he described the council's decision as "nonsensical".
Part of the reason the M-R system has never caught on with the general public is that it liberally uses two diacritic marks: the apostrophe and the breve.
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In Newton Abbot, residents of Bakers Views - named after writer and explorer Sir Samuel White Baker - have differing opinions over whether their street sign should have an apostrophe.
O. box in Hastings-on-Hudson how clever and coy he had been to find a place-name that was itself, with the mere insertion of an apostrophe, a sentence, and a faintly lascivious one, too.
In Thurman, the apostrophe is showing more gumption.
WSJ: In U.S., Apostrophes in Place Names Are Practically Against the Law
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