ABOLISH POSSESSIVE APOSTROPHES!!!!

They are only in the language because some benighted pedant back in the 16th century took the possessive ending -s (exactly the same as in German, where they don't have this hangup) to be a contraction of "his". Lord Herries His Complaynt and all that.

Time to drop them. They add absolutely nothing to sense or clarity, we only cling to them because Miss Wright might hit us on the knuckles with a ruler if we skip them. If you get marginal cases where the meaning could be ambiguous, use an explaining phrase if it needs to be clarified. "The paws of the kittens" for example. except it's difficult to imagine a case where it would be essential to know if there was one kitten or more. And anyway it only works in writing, as we don't pronounce the apostrophe.

And it gets rid of all those conundra (oy!) like how to pronounce "Jones's".