But I did go and see it because I am determined not to let my apostrophe rage rule my life. As wildly mad as I get every single time I pull up at my corner store that sells "newspaper's" and "todays bread", I still walk inside and buy my newspapers and today's bread. I am, at the end of the day, a functioning apostropholic.

A part of me wonders if I should give up the fight altogether. No-one apparently cares anymore about basic grammar and punctuation, least of all those parties that should, such as signwriters, advertising copywriters and English teachers.

In other parts of the world quite sophisticated campaigns are afoot to completely eradicate the apostrophe. Some are driven by frustrated academics - people like phonetics professor Dr John Wells, who asked the London University College Spelling Society: "Do we really have nothing better to do with our lives than fret about the apostrophe?"

Other dissenters are from the pop culture crowd - the too-cool-for-school types like REM guitarist Peter Buck, who said: "We all hate apostrophes. There's never been a good rock album that had an apostrophe in the title." Oh, hello, what about Who's Next by The Who, Sam's Town by The Killers, and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band?

England's second largest city, Birmingham, has officially banned the use of apostrophes in council signage, arguing the punctuation mark is unnecessary and confusing.

"If I want to go to a restaurant, I don't want to need an A-level in English to find it," said one councillor, whose second job is writing menus.

Hate groups have formed online too, www.killtheapostrophe.com being one of the most popular, while Facebook's Anti Apostrophe League continues to grow its membership. The humble computer, ever unable to properly process punctuation, must be feeling very smug.