I am the sort of person who tuts at a greengrocer's apostrophe, though I wouldn't go as far as the chap in Bristol. Mainly I don't see what the big confusion is, the Ladybird Book of Spelling and Grammar has stood me in good stead for over 30 years and if you can pick the main points up from that it can't be that difficult. However, I'm willing to concede there might be scope for confusion occasionally (more of which anon) and whether it's hard to get right or not, do we actually need it? I started thinking about this after