Apostrophes are the curly floating commas in sentences that usually indicate possession or a contraction. There are a few set phrases and holidays, however, that also use apostrophes. In fact, ...

In French, to show that someone possesses something, you use their word for “of,” which is “de”: La plume de ma tante. Spanish works the same way: La venganza de Moctezuma. Italian, too: Buca di Beppo ...

If you type into Google's search engine the term "two chihuahua's," complete with apostrophe, you'll get plenty of hits that include the apostrophe. The search term "competing agenda's" also brings up ...

Re “Some People Can Get Very Possessive About Apostrophe’s,” Commentary, Dec. 16: For years I have railed and groused about this problem of using apostrophes to indicate plural nouns, but it has only ...

(AP) — Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. But it doesn’t take much ...