{"id":3562,"date":"2014-01-28T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2014-01-28T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T09:34:09","slug":"the-return-of-the-apostrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge: the return of the apostrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog recently reported on the removal of apostrophes &#8211; and other punctuation &#8211; in street names by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.gov.uk\/\">Cambridge City Council<\/a> as they &#8220;<em>could lead to mistakes, particularly for emergency services<\/em><em>&#8221; (<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3494\" title=\"Cambridge City Council confused by apostrophes, so bans them!\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Some heartening news now arrives courtesy of Private Eye on the response of <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/cantabrigian\">Cantabrigians<\/a> to their illiterate local authority.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/grammar.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot from Private Eye\" width=\"599\" height=\"585\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/grammar.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/grammar-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show that one cannot keep good pedants down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog recently reported on the removal of apostrophes &#8211; and other punctuation &#8211; in street names by Cambridge City Council as they &#8220;could lead to mistakes, particularly for emergency services&#8221; (posts passim). Some heartening news now arrives courtesy of Private Eye on the response of Cantabrigians to their illiterate local authority. It just goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[16,22,20],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}