Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren’t we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? And yet we see ignorance and indifference everywhere. Its Summer! says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe. ANTIQUE,S, says another, bizarrely. Pansy’s ready, we learn to our considerable interest (Is she?), as we browse among the bedding plants. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of ...
