Cambridge becomes latest council to drop punctuation
Cambridge City Council has become the most recent local authority in the country to stop printing apostrophes on many of its road signs, to prevent 'confusion'.
Speaking about the move which has raised eyebrows in many areas, a spokesman for the city council said:
The spokesman also said that the council was following the policy laid out by the guidelines published by the latest National Land and Property Gazetteer.
However, campaigners have hit out at the exercise, which has also been taken on board by other local councils East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. East Staffordshire will also introduce such plans, that campaigners say is setting the wrong type of example for school kids.
It is a move which is also likely to surprise printing companies, with correct punctuation and grammar a critical part of official documents, brochures, posters and all manner of stationery printing.
Often seen as a lack of integrity, it seems that the move by the council has angered many local residents in the learned city too.
Throughout the city, groups of 'apostroterrophists' have been supplying their own punctuation on the new signs. Famous routes corrected include Kings Parade and Scholars Way.
Speaking about the move which has raised eyebrows in many areas, a spokesman for the city council said:
"It was decided that in order to avoid potential confusion over incorrectly punctuated street names that the use of the apostrophe would no longer be used on new street name plates in Cambridge."
The spokesman also said that the council was following the policy laid out by the guidelines published by the latest National Land and Property Gazetteer.
However, campaigners have hit out at the exercise, which has also been taken on board by other local councils East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. East Staffordshire will also introduce such plans, that campaigners say is setting the wrong type of example for school kids.
It is a move which is also likely to surprise printing companies, with correct punctuation and grammar a critical part of official documents, brochures, posters and all manner of stationery printing.
Often seen as a lack of integrity, it seems that the move by the council has angered many local residents in the learned city too.
Throughout the city, groups of 'apostroterrophists' have been supplying their own punctuation on the new signs. Famous routes corrected include Kings Parade and Scholars Way.