Lynne Truss on the use of the apostrophe

For those of you who were careless enough not to pick up the free CD in today's Sunday Times, here's a snippet where Lynne Truss describes her dislike for the misuse of the apostrophe.

"Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice, if you persist in writing "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave."

A bit extreme, don't you think? I await comments that point out my own punctuation errors.



I wonder does one of these pandas eat, shoot and leave? Crude.
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