Birmingham City Council bans apostrophes from road signs

Birmingham Post ^ | Jan 29 2009 | Paul Dale

[Old Professer]

According to the eminent authority, Amperand & Ampersand, apostrophes are never to be used when the likelihood of redundancy may repeat itself more than once.

[Old Professer]

How does one use a semicolon when a preposition is due?

[TankerKC]

BTW: What is calling 999?

911 in British Pounds...at today's exchange rate.

[TankerKC]

Wrong Continent.

[Oztrich Boy]

Moseley and Kings Heath Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Mullaney, who devised the new policy, believes Birmingham should follow the example of America, which dropped the possessive apostrophe in place names in 1890.

"Americans: Is there anything they don't know?"

[Repeal The 17th]

“...dumbing down of America...”
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Uhhh, sorry to tell you,
but this is from Birmingham, England;
not Birmingham, Alabama.

[Star Traveler]

I saw that, but it’s a world-wide problem, too... hence the dumbing down of America... LOL...

[Wallace T.]

I saw that, but it’s a world-wide problem, too

Only in the Anglosphere, based on the article. I have no idea whether this is a problem in other languages with a Latin based alphabet like German, French, Spanish, etc.