[grammar]

On the train to Leicester:

The apostrophe has three uses:

1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.

"Knowing that the printed word is always edited, typeset and proof-read before it reaches us, we appreciate its literary authority."

Not always the case...so I must disagree with Lynn Truss who sets the printed word in opposition to online writing. According to Truss, our punctuation system "is all now threatened by instant messaging, email shortcuts, and do-it-yourself Web pages; all of which come at a juncture when "a period of abysmal undereducating in literacy has coincided with this unexpected explosion of global self-publishing. Thus people who don't know their apostrophe from their elbow are positively invited to disseminate their writings to anyone on the planet stupid enough to double-click and scroll."

Maybe punctuation is also threatened by print?


Funnily, google spots the error: