https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/6463db91-5664-4a95-9a3e-6880dd0cbea8 A retired journalist who founded a campaign to preserve the correct use of the apostrophe in the English language. is giving up his battle because he says "ignorance has won". We discuss what's causing the decline in the use of this punctuation mark and teach you some vocabulary along the way. This week's question The word ‘apostrophe’ itself – which language does it come from? Is it: a) Latin b) Greek c) Arabic Listen to the programme to find out the answer. 𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲: 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭 Someone overly concerned with correcting small mistakes 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 to stay in a place longer 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 to walk around with no real purpose or desire to get somewhere quickly 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐢𝐫 at risk, possibly not going to happen 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 a lack of knowledge about something 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 a primitive and uncivilized person To download the audio and a transcript, go to our website http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-200109 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟔 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬: Walkman: The music player revolution https://youtu.be/NUHIoZFuDAw What is surf and turf? https://youtu.be/hCMKloIx8vk Hacking help for US elections https://youtu.be/Pzq2slM4Wu4 Fake or real: what's the best tree to have at Christmas? https://youtu.be/NFZH67BgO5c Why does seeing someone yawn make us yawn? https://youtu.be/-aLUbUMVYAc #LearnEnglish #6MinuteEnglish #BBCLearningEnglish Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:41:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.pavel-english.ru https://video.pavel-english.ru/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/6463db91-5664-4a95-9a3e-6880dd0cbea8 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.pavel-english.ru/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.