 In his book "American Speech", linguist Steven Byington stated of the apostrophe that "the language would be none the worse for its abolition".Adrian Room, in his "English Journal" article "Axing the Apostrophe", argued that apostrophes are unnecessary, and context will resolve any ambiguity.In a letter to the "English Journal", Peter Brodie stated that apostrophes are "largely decorative ... [and] rarely clarify meaning".