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Public Interest

Mar. 17, 2000

Apostrophic Musings

By Paul O'Brien
        Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day and something is missing. It's something that has been largely unavailable since the advent of computer word processing. And I'm getting tired of it. It's something that no English language writer can live without. I speak of the apostrophe, that most useful device that, among other things, lets words flow on the page as they do from our...

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