Your article (North Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out, 5 May) made me cheer. Here in Nova Scotia, Canada, it’s rare to find an apostrophised community name, even when it begs for one – for example, our famous tourist attraction, Peggys Cove. Apostrophes were dropped many years ago in the interests of marine safety. Our province is so small that cartographers had to extend the names of communities out into the sea portion of their maps. This often led to confusion among mariners who kept mistaking these little pieces of punctuation for rocks.
So, no more apostrophes for Nova Scotians, to this very day.
Peter Duffy
Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada
