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Interesting Fact - Punctuation

The possessive apostrophe is the punctuation mark that causes people in the UK the most problems.

(According to a test conducted by SpinVox, nearly half of UK adults tested were unable to use it properly. The problems people have with apostrophes arise from the hopeless state of English punctuation and spelling," Professor Christopher Mulvey from the Museum of the English Language at Winchester University, told the Telegraph.)

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