News You Can Use is a selection of articles, taken from Writing Lab Newsletter‘s Facebook page, that concern language and writing in an international context. Have an interesting article to share? Post it in the comments below or on Facebook!

 

“It’s almost as though somebody with a giant eraser is literally trying to erase punctuation from our consciousness.” Read about the “war on apostrophes” in one British town.

A Japanese publisher has printed what may be the “world’s tiniest book.”  I wonder how students would feel to see that one on a syllabus.

And finally, do we need to ™ this post? Sweden rows with Google over term ‘ungoogleable’