Article About Apostrophes

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Since I know so many of us here are somewhat FANATICAL about grammar 
and punctuation, I thought those members of Nitpicker's Anonymous 
(Yes, that *was* deliberate) might enjoy the article at the New York 
Times' site - 
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/16/world/16ENGL.html?searchpv=nytToday 
(registration is *free*).
As the article begins 
They jump out everywhere at John Richards, silent
              testaments to the declining standards of our
              time.

              Just four blocks from his house, for instance,
              is the Print Xpress copy shop, with its sign
              offering to print "menu's."

              That's just the beginning, Mr. Richards said
              recently, his Brezh nevian eyebrows beetling
              indignantly as he conducted an annotated tour
              of the neighborhood, on the outskirts of this
              busy Lincolnshire town. There was Sweeney
              Todd, "the modern mans barber shop." There
              was a store featuring "ladies fashions" and a
              pub whose weekly current events board was titled, 
shockingly, "whats on."

              "It's irritated me for years and years," Mr. Richards, 
75, a retired copy editor and  reporter for various local newspapers, 
said of public apostrophe misuse — the rampant absence of apostrophes 
that are needed, the presence of those that are not.