Tuesday 25 August 2015

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 88

Via John Holloway, an entry from an online school directory which persistently presents the school’s name incorrectly, although the school’s own included graphic shows the correct form… twice:

Link: UK Schools & Colleges Database, ‘Murrays Road School’

John points out that ‘the name of the road (and therefore of the school) is Murray’s Road, with an apostrophe’. The directory is not the only place where confusion over the apostrophe arises. A report in IOM Today of the school’s proposed amalgamation with the infants’ school that feeds it shows the apostrophe in the text, but not in the photograph’s caption.
Murrays School for Murray’s School (x3)

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