Could The Apostrophe Be Viewed As A Shibboleth Which Separates The Half Educated From...

[sandyRoe]

...their more fortunate brothers and sisters?
I confess, I've never quite got the hang of using them.

[Buenchico]

Zebo:
Chris Woodhead was RIGHT.

It doesn't matter what you, I or the rest of the world say, Chris Woodhead is ALWAYS right and everyone else is WRONG He made that VERY clear to me when I met him!!! (I was meant to take him out to dinner after a meeting but he declined the offer. That was probably very fortunate for both of us as I might have ended up hitting him!)

[jno]

I'm not sure the world would be a worse place if they were simply abolished, given how widely they're misused anyway. You might have to recast the occasional sentence for clarity, but not that many.