A North Yorkshire county authority banned apostrophes on street signs because they cause problems with poorly designed computer systems. “I walk past the sign every day and it riles my blood to see inappropriate grammar or punctuation.”
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This is unfortunately not a joke! I live in the area - North Yorkshire Council - and this is 'reet stupid' to use some Yorkshire dialect!
They were removed from a number of Australian place names ('toponyms') a long time ago
https://www.apostrophes.com.au/apostrophes-and-place-names/
I only noticed this in relation to some specific locations a few years ago and was told that it was due to issues with linking different generations of mapping and communications software for emergency operations.
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