Apostrophes
As a former journalist and editor, it bums me too. Sadly, all languages change over time. Remember trying to read The Canterbury Tales in the original form?
"Wepyng and waylyng, care and oother sorwe
I knowe ynogh, on even and a-morwe,'
Quod the Marchant, 'and so doon oother mo
That wedded been..."
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