The Oatmeal has created an illustrated guide on “How To Use An Apostrophe”.
via Matthew Inman
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Nalt’s think’s it’s about time we informed the masses’ who dont get it.
I’ve never understood writing something like the 1990’s as such. Or even 90’s. I don’t know, maybe I’m being persnickety, but both Chicago and AP styles dictate ’90s because apostrophes also denote the omission of letters (or in this case, numbers)…hence why we use apostrophes in contractions. Is this just me or are other people on board with this?
Yeah, I disagree with both of the exceptions to the plural rule. “1960’s” looks ridiculous, and it’s also ambiguous: are you talking about an event which occurred in 1960? I’m more understanding about the single-letter thing; personally I usually write “There are two Ts in ‘kittens’.”