This week, the council made it official, saying it was banning the punctuation mark from signs in a bid to end the dispute once and for all.
Councilor Martin Mullaney, who heads the city’s transport scrutiny committee, said he decided to act after yet another interminable debate into whether “Kings Heath,” a Birmingham suburb, should be rewritten with an apostrophe.
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qas_writeAd();“I had to make a final decision on this,” he said Friday. “We keep debating apostrophes in meetings and we have other things to do.”
No More Street Sign Apostrophes in England’s Second-Largest City
