Irish Examiner Column 22/03/2021: I’ve stopped worrying about the R number.

 Call it self-care, call it mellowing, call it ‘no one was listening anyway‘. But I'm trying not to get cross about unimportant things. I calmed down about apostrophes. Anyway, many of the ‘apostrastrophes’ you see in print are due to Autocorrect sticking its algorithmic oar in. And in Dutch they put it in a different place and English came from Dutch-ish so who’s to say what right is at any given time?

Now, I’m chilling out about mispronunciation. Not only is life too short but also, because like lots of seemingly banal things, there is often history buried in the way we get things wrong.

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