As 2025 winds down, June Casagrande writes about the correct punctuation for all the holidays to come in 2026.

That’s it. I’m at the end of my rope. Or, more appropriately, “my rope’s end” — because what I’m so worked up about is the growing misuse of that puny piece of punctuation called the apostrophe. The ...

As a longtime University of Minnesota editor and writer (and an alumna who earned two English degrees), I was drawn to the Feb. 3 front-page article regarding whether to add an apostrophe to “the ...

You’ve got everything ready for your holiday cards. You wrangled the family into fall sweaters—despite the 78-degree weather—and finally got a photo worth using. Maybe it’s from a beach trip or last ...

Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn't a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. But it doesn't take much to get ...

You can use apostrophes to show that you have omitted (left out) some letters when you are joining words together. For example, you can join the words ‘you’ and ‘are’ together. You + are = you're. The ...

Common English Grammar Mistakes: English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to grammar. From confusing “its” and “it’s” to ...

After testing, I believe it's down to apostrophes. KTR is incorrectly counting "don't" as two words. The same seems to apply for all cases, such as possessives and other contractions.