Daily Archives: Aug. 12, 2008

An unnecessary apostrophe?

A reader wrote me today wondering about an apostrophe in a Local and State section headline: Your opinion’s wanted.

I can see why the reader thought it was wrong. It could be read as Your opinions wanted with extraneous punctuation.

But it wasn’t a mistake. Here, the headline writer used opinion’s as a contraction of opinion is.

As always, though, I do like hearing your opinion.