
Deciding that the simplest answer is just to leave them out, the council has told its signwriters to include no apostrophes on its street signs. More here.
So, considering that we've started looking at attitudes to language change - prescriptive and descriptive approaches to how language changes - what do you think the opposing camps would say about this? What might a prescriptivist or a descriptivist say about this change?
Have a look here for the Kill the Apostrophe view and here for the Apostrophe Protection Society's take on it.
*Its the end of apostrophe's as we know em - this is a joke, not an extract from an A2 essay, although it could have been