Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval

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Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval

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World News@civilloquy.com · 1 month ago

Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German

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