Just saying....

[anna_wing]

It's spelt 'extraversion', The Guardian.

Also, you don't need an apostrophe when you are adding an 's' to make a plural. Or when you are adding 's' to 'it' to make the possessive of 'it'.

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[flemmings]

Oh noes! Not The Guardian too!

[sovay]

Or when you are adding 's' to 'it' to make the possessive of 'it'.

I believe it is academically acceptable to spell extraversion with or without the "o," but this is just wrong.

[anna_wing]

I believe "extroversion" is an accepted US spelling, but in the UK it was "extraversion", at least when I came across the concept lo these many decades ago, so The Guardian should jolly well have known better.

The random insertion or deletion of apostrophes without regard for the distinction among contractions, plurals and possessives is a horrible thing, and everywhere.

[sovay]

I believe "extroversion" is an accepted US spelling, but in the UK it was "extraversion", at least when I came across the concept lo these many decades ago, so The Guardian should jolly well have known better.

If it's a British-American distinction, I agree that is not the side of the Atlantic I would have expected the Guardian to fall on.

The random insertion or deletion of apostrophes without regard for the distinction among contractions, plurals and possessives is a horrible thing, and everywhere.

I saw one in an advertisement on the side of van a few days ago: it was a kind of mashed-up plural possessive. It was not cool.