THE ORDER OF THE APOSTROPHIC FLOURISH

I do wish I had seen the vicar, (church minister) running around with his paint buckets and brushes, in the town, in the United Kingdom, in which he ministers to his flock.

The ubiquitous possessive apostrophe which is totally misused, or not used when it should be, irritated the man of the church so much, he took matters into his own hands to correct what he saw as an unholy omission that needed divine intervention, particularly in its reference to saints.

In a Kentish suburb, there were streets and centres named St Johns'; St Johns but, there were no St John's. This error of punctuation he adjudged for absolute correction. The intrepid vicar undertook the total task of awarding all the St John's he could find, the correct possessive order of the meritorious apostrophic flourish.