Was there only one Edwardian Freemason in Oswestry?
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Was there only one Edwardian Freemason in Oswestry?
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 15 Sep 2014
Dated 1902, this inscription is on the corner of Smithfield Road and Roft Street. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4312680 The placement of the apostrophe before the S means that Freemason is singular. A possible explanation would be if Freemason were a collective singular, but the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary does not show any such usage. So it appears that confusion about the use of the apostrophe is not a recent development.
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