Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes: > Hmm, OK. A real reference. I'd always assumed it was just poor > practice (given that the general population has serious trouble > with the apostrophe). > > I wonder if this applies to British/Australian English as well. The older rule was to put in more apostrophes than the Chicago manual says, but I don't know if that older rule was British or not.