At last, a book that tells you exactly where to stick your apostrophe

Simon Griffin’s irreverant pocket-sized guide to a tricky piece of punctuation is the perfect stocking fillerWhen the Guardian style guide went on sale to the public for the first time in 2004, my co-author Nikki Marshall and I wanted to call it No ****ing Asterisks, inspired by the brilliant cartoon (by the late David Austin) above. The then editor-in-chief of the Guardian was unimpressed. As he was only too happy to allow us to fill his newspaper with – to quote another cartoonist, Steve Bell – “more fucks than you can shake a fucking stick at”, this was disappointing. Anyway, we went with his title: The Guardian stylebook (now Guardian Style). Not as much fun, perhaps, but easier to ask for in your local Waterstones. Or, as it used to be known, Waterstone’s. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

At last, a book that tells you exactly where to stick your apostrophe

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