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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How can we pin down our neighbours' rogue apostrophes?

Plus: a cure for reader's block

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

Q. We have just moved into a charming little hamlet in Warwickshire and were delighted to find a bottle of wine and a friendly card to welcome us from the neighbours. I was a little bit dismayed to see that they had introduced themselves in their card as from the ‘Paddock’s’ (sic).

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