Grammar pedants - help please.

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LindsD Sep 2016 7:15am, 7 Sep 2016 11,598 posts	0 LindsD Your first post made me
Columba Sep 2016 11:14am, 7 Sep 2016 11,138 posts	0 Columba I liked Gordon's link, too.
RichHL Sep 2016 9:11pm, 8 Sep 2016 12,106 posts	0 RichHL I'm not really a Grammar Nazi. I just enjoy cosplay at the weekend.
Dvorak Sep 2016 1:05pm, 9 Sep 2016 12,129 posts	0 Dvorak Torrequebrada The elefant roundabout
Dvorak Sep 2016 1:05pm, 9 Sep 2016 12,130 posts	0 Dvorak Wrong thread. No soup for me!
beebop Sep 2016 10:46pm, 11 Sep 2016 751 posts	0 beebop Thanks to JenL, Columba and Dvorak - yes, I did mean apostrophe! Thanks. I'm proof reading, so don't want to change the author's intentions - speech reveals character - but wanted ammunition to argue against that second ' in case anyone queried my assertion that its just wrong, sorry, can't explain why...
Columba Sep 2016 12:24pm, 12 Sep 2016 11,192 posts	0 Columba This is neither grammar nor pedantry, but I came across a lovely new word yesterday: Anticipointment (Maybe should start a thread called "neologisms")
JenL Sep 2016 12:35pm, 12 Sep 2016 27,391 posts	0 JenL A linguist friend of mine has several of these in regular use, including "administrivia" (senseless but obligatory paperwork), "administrauma" (the emotional response to too much paperwork) and "hallistenation" (imposing one's own, inaccurate, meaning on what one has heard another speaker say). She's also very good at coming up with alternative definitions for existing words, my favourite being "negligence" (the act of wearing flimsy lingerie and not caring about it ).
Columba Sep 2016 12:43pm, 12 Sep 2016 11,197 posts	0 Columba Anyone remember a column called "Oddly enough" - was in the Observer, I think, written by Paul Jennings. He suggested alternative meanings for place names; e.g. a Bodmin is one-sixtieth of a man-hour.
LindsD Sep 2016 12:44pm, 12 Sep 2016 11,705 posts	0 LindsD Douglas Adams and John Lloyd did that in The Meaning of Liff.