Punctuation in Peril

Is the apostrophe on the way out? Though he’d be at the head of the line to mourn the apostrophe’s demise if it should pass away, in an essay for The Huffington Post, Henry Hitchings (The Language Wars) posits just that.Before the seventeenth century the apostrophe was rare. The Parisian printer Geoffroy Tory promoted it in the 1520s, and it first appeared in an English text in 1559.Initially the