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The decline of the apostrophe: 6 Minute English

The decline of the apostrophe: 6 Minute English

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A retired journalist who founded a campaign to preserve the correct use of the apostrophe in the English language. is giving up his battle because he says ignorance has won. We discuss what's causing the decline in the use of this punctuation mark and teach you some vocabulary along the way. This week's question The word apostrophe itself which language does it come from? Is it: a) Latin b) Greek c) Arabic Listen to the programme to find out the answer. Vocabulary: a pedant Someone overly concerned with correcting small mistakes to linger to stay in a place longer to wander to walk around with no real purpose or desire to get somewhere quickly up in the air at risk, possibly not going to happen ignorance a lack of knowledge about something a barbarian a primitive and uncivilized person
Date: 2020-09-18

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Hilarious video I love it by the way I am an Arabic citizen Im from Iraq we are dont use it in our language but I think its Greek is the right answer thank you Georgina and Rob
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The more I listen to Mr. Edwards the more i feel sad about the social media and bad punctuation.
May be it's a problem with the self-correction tool in some applications.

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emmmmmmmm..... the barbarian, I guess i'm one of them...... I often use the wrong punctuation... like typing too many .........
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great lesson.Let's take some soft corner on these lazy punctuation users I feel kinda bad :(
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