The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In...
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Apostrophe (') is the sixth solo album and eighteenth in total by Frank Zappa, released in March 1974 in both stereo and quadraphonic formats. An edited...
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Look up apostrophe, ', apos, or Apostroph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An apostrophe is a punctuation mark, represented as ’ or '. Apostrophe may also...
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ʻOkina (redirect from Hawaiian apostrophe)
Polynesian languages as well; these are usually written by a similar apostrophe-like letter. Following are the names of the glottal stop consonant in...
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Look up 'n in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. N-apostrophe (’n, a letter ⟨n⟩ preceded by an apostrophe) is a digraph used in Afrikaans, a language spoken...
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'apologetic' or parochial apostrophe is the distinctive use of apostrophes in some Modern Scots spelling. Apologetic apostrophes generally occurred where...
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An apostrophe is an exclamatory figure of speech. It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech...
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modifier letter apostrophe ʼ is a letter found in Unicode encoding, used primarily for various glottal sounds. The letter apostrophe is encoded at U+02BC...
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English possessive (redirect from Apostrophe s)
formed with the suffix -'s, but in some cases just with the addition of an apostrophe to an existing s. This form is sometimes called the Saxon genitive, reflecting...
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The Apostrophe Protection Society is a UK-based society with "the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation...
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Modifier letter turned comma (redirect from Inverted apostrophe)
often used to romanize aspirated consonants in Armenian. Modifier letter apostrophe ʻOkina Spacing Modifier Letters Unicode code charts Archived 15 June 2018...
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Quotation mark (redirect from Smart apostrophes)
in order to get a character that was clearly distinguishable from the apostrophes, the commas, and the parentheses. Also, in other scripts, the angular...
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English alphabet (section Apostrophe)
even where they would serve to alleviate some degree of confusion. The apostrophe (ʼ) is not usually considered part of the English alphabet nor used as...
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The apostrophe in the Ukrainian language is used before the letters я, ю, є, ї, when they denote the combination of the consonant /j/ with the vowels /ɑ/...
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’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. This is due to the many fonts...
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The modifier letter double apostrophe (ˮ) is a spacing glyph. It is used in the orthography of Tundra Nenets to denote a glottal stop, in the Enets and...
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Greengrocer (section Greengrocers' apostrophe)
apple's, orange's, or banana's), an apostrophe used incorrectly to form a plural is known as a greengrocers' apostrophe. Fruit stand The Power of the Powerless#Havel's...
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"Dato" (without apostrophe) is used. In Malaysia, the variant spellings "Datuk", "Dato'" (with apostrophe), "Dato" (without apostrophe) and "Datu" are...
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unaspirated-aspirated stop consonant pairs using a character resembling an apostrophe. Thomas Wade and others used the spiritus asper (ʽ or ʻ), borrowed from...
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accents, and allowed the apostrophe to be used as a prime. None of these were considered typographically correct. The use of apostrophe for opening quotes,...
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Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724...
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character is represented by 39 in ASCII and U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE in Unicode. It is used as: Apostrophe (as straight version of the ’ character), a punctuation...
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Apostrophe (formerly known as UberWriter) is an open-source, minimalist Markdown text editor, developed by Wolf Vollprecht. It was originally created for...
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Don't Tread on Me, usually stylized fully in uppercase letters without an apostrophe, is a political slogan dating to the American Revolution. It is an alternative...
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"The Apostrophe to Vincentine" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was first published before 1923 and is therefore...
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the glottal stop sound. The letter derives graphically from use of the apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩ or the symbol ʾ for glottal stop. Where ⟨ʔ⟩ is not available, not...
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ㅋ (k'), ㅌ (t'), ㅍ (p') and ㅊ (ch') became indistinguishable when the apostrophe was removed. In addition, the vowels ㅓ (ŏ) and ㅗ (o), as well as ㅡ (ŭ)...
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from those of the apostrophe and single and double quotation marks, the uses of the prime symbol are quite different. While an apostrophe is now often used...
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example, he founded the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe, whose members attempt to stem the tide of such solecisms as "potatoe's"...
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of the symbol Similar glyphs or concepts See also ◌́ Acute (accent) Apostrophe, Grave, Circumflex ❦ ❧ Aldus leaf Dingbat, Dinkus, Hedera, Index Fleuron...
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