I am looking for History, How today’s languages trace back, etc.
So many places reference PIE, and I am simply trying to grow in my knowledge of it other than searching all over Google.
Thanks in advance.
The Mid Devon District Council in Southwestern England wanted to eliminate the little apostrophe punctuation mark to avoid confusion, which is ironic, because it would only add too more confusion.
The criticisms from the traditionalists were quite vociferous and they came from as far away as Australia. The local officials succumbed to the grammarians who lambasted the District Council for even coming up with the idea.
The street sign,” St. Pauls Square”, dropped the apostrophe, which violates the rule of using an apostrophe for possessives of singular nouns. One of the letters commenting on the article was very interesting and ironic. The writer asserted in his letter that “St. Paul’s Square” and “St. Pauls Square” are both wrong. The correct name should be “St Paul Square.” The square is named after St.Paul. It is not his square.
I was ignorant of this, for I assumed--as did the people in Southwestern England--that “St. Paul Square” would require the possessive case. I haven’t investigated the writers claim, but it does make sense.
]]>]]>Last month, Urban Dictionary was cited in a financial restitution case in Wisconsin, where an appeals court was reviewing the term “jack” because a convicted robber and his companion had referred to themselves as the “jack boys.”