Quote Originally Posted by sycld View Post
I read that England is doing stupid shit to mangle its own language's grammar like this. It's hard to stomach that the English are worse than Americans when it comes to their own language, since Americans are bad enough.

I mean, seriously: the apostrophe is the single fucking easiest grammatical device in the language. Whats more, it is necessary to use it sometimes to make clear otherwise ambiguous sentences and signs. If you can't use an apostrophe properly, you're a moran.
I had a teacher once who was a Paul Moran. Might have been Steve Moran. Anywho, he's dead now.

The single most important thing my English teacher taught me is that you can't actually get English wrong. It's an open language and, as such, is subject to change (as it does, constantly).

Anyway, the point of this is that the apostrophes are being dropped where they are part of place names. Personally I'm not too fussed if St Paul's Cathedral becomes St Pauls Cathedral. Anyway, it's not like we haven't had street names Gropecunt Lane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia@@AMEPARAM@@/wiki/File:Magpie_lane.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Magpie_lane.jpg/200px-Magpie_lane.jpg"@@AMEPARAM@@commons/thumb/0/0f/Magpie_lane.jpg/200px-Magpie_lane.jpg before.