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Ian Mayes, former readers editor at The Guardian, blames a mysterious creature called the apostrofly, which the newspaper’s style guide describes as “an insect that lands at random on the printed page, depositing an apostrophe wherever it lands”.
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Back in 2002, Ian Mayes introduced the apostrofly.
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* First off, the apostrofly Ian describes is a cousin of the "greengrocer's apostrophe": random use of the apostrophe to create plurals, for example, as in "The Smith's are coming."
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[...] the apostrophantom In previous posts I have mentioned the apostrofly, described in the Guardian style book as an insect that lands at [...]
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[...] the apostrophantom In previous posts I have mentioned the apostrofly, described in the Guardian style book as an insect that [...]
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Guardian Books published a book of the newspaper’s errors, compiled by former readers’ editor Ian Mayes (he of our friend the apostrofly), and there was even a blog devoted to the paper’s typos, but it couldn’t keep up.
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