The greengrocers’ – or superfluous – apostrophe has a special place if one’s selling bananas (shouldn’t that be banana’s? Ed.), but it looks sadly out of place in Bristol’s newspaper of record, which is what happened yesterday in this heartening story from the St George area of the city.
The offending punctuation even had the temerity to turn up in the item’s opening sentence, as follows:
Crofts End Church in St George has just opened the doors to it’s newly refurbished internet suite.
No doubt the bosses at the Temple Way Ministry of Truth believe the downward spiral in quality is a small price to pay for what they’re saving by not employing sub-editors.