Judging the judges
Given my role here, it’s probably not surprising that I’m sensitive to the misuse of written English, and perhaps the most aggravating instance is the so-called greengrocers’ apostrophe, when the poor little ‘mid-air comma’ is recklessly pushed into places where it doesn’t belong. I’m not surprised by the confusion between ‘its’ and ‘it’s’, that is, after all, one of the many irregularities in the English language; but I simply can’t understand why so many autojumblers scrawl notices like £5 GLOVE’S and
