Residents of North Yorkshire are irked that their road signs are having punctuation removed to make it easier for computer databases. How bad must North Yorkshire databases be for that to be needed?

How good are you at using apostrophes? One of the hardest topics of English grammar (few native speakers getting them right), it is a massively unrewarding attainment – they don’t even get pronounced.

This Guardian quiz searchingly tests your skill at using apostrophes. Fo’c’s’le, anyone?