The Pedants' Society

Fellow No. 00268

Mr Llewellyn Penrhyn

Admitted September 1928 · F.

In the chair at the Twelfth Extraordinary General Meeting of 24th October 1962, on which occasion he proposed and carried the Audibility Resolution. His remark — "Punctuation is the most important part of the language. The apostrophe is a punctuation mark. The apostrophe must therefore be the most audible part of the word in which it occurs. The matter is not, on this view, contestable." — is engraved on the lintel above the door of the Society’s principal meeting room.

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