From The Sunday Telegraph:
Council staff are being issued with an "idiot's guide" on how to use apostrophes and other punctuation marks correctly in a bid to stem their misuse in street signs and official notices.
The move comes amid growing exasperation about the increasing numbers of grammatical errors appearing on documents and signboards throughout Britain.
Readers of The Sunday Telegraph have submitted dozens of examples of poor grammar following our report of one man's campaign to restore the correct use of the apostrophe in his home town.
Last Sunday we told how Stefan Gatward, who has become known as the Apostrophe Man of Royal Tunbridge Wells, has identified several examples of street signs which have either an apostrophe missing or one in the wrong place.
Local authorities around the country have now resorted to issuing GCSE-style crib sheets to their staff in a bid to raise standards of grammar in their organisations. Full story >>
