one weird punctuation trick you won’t believe unless you are unusually credulous

The horrifying issue: The “apostrophe + s” ending in English has multiple meanings. This can be confusing. Fig 1: Hypothesis: the apostrophe (as seen above) is a poor choice of symbol for indicating possession. Here are some examples of a few applications of ’s (or s’ ) : Singular possession (“The cat’s tail.”) Plural possession…