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Quotes About Apostrophe

My dad, as much as I love him, has one of those signs - 'The Isbell's' - on his front door, and he's got the damn apostrophe in there. I haven't strangled him yet.
~ Jason Isbell
The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.
~ David Foster Wallace
To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.
~ Lynne Truss
Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?
~ Lynne Truss