{"id":1830659,"date":"2024-05-06T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1830659"},"modified":"2024-05-06T09:16:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:16:30","slug":"north-yorkshire-bans-apostrophes-on-street-signs-outrage-ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/north-yorkshire-bans-apostrophes-on-street-signs-outrage-ensues\/","title":{"rendered":"North Yorkshire Bans Apostrophes on Street Signs, Outrage Ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

North Yorkshire council announced that apostrophes would be removed from street signs to avoid running into problems with geographical systems; as the Grauniad<\/em> reports<\/a>, this move has \u201cprovoked the wrath of residents and linguists alike.\u201d Okay, several things. One, the standard being cited, BS 7666, from what I can gather (I can\u2019t actually find BS 7666 online, just several guides to it), doesn\u2019t ban<\/em> apostrophes and other punctuation marks, it just deprecates them as a best practice. Two, removing apostrophes breaks Irish names\u2014no O\u2019Reilly Street, for example\u2014and as such in an English context is Not a Good Look. And three, any database that breaks in the presence of an apostrophe is incompetently done. [Brian Timoney<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

North Yorkshire council announced that apostrophes would be removed from street signs to avoid running into problems with geographical systems; as the Grauniad reports, this move has \u201cprovoked the wrath of residents and linguists alike.\u201d… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[989,71,1109],"class_list":["post-1830659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-toponyms","tag-england","tag-uk","tag-yorkshire","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5466,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/10\/christopher-saxton-remembered-in-leeds\/","url_meta":{"origin":1830659,"position":0},"title":"Christopher Saxton Remembered in Leeds","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 October 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"The Yorkshire Society has erected a plaque in Tingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to commemorate the 16th-century cartographer Christopher Saxton, the\u00a0Yorkshire Evening Post reports. 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