apostrophe in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Translations for apostrophe in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

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Translations for apostrophe in the English»French Dictionary (Go to French»English)

Translations for apostrophe in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

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This is yet another reason to use apostrophes only for possessives and not for plurals.
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The apostrophe indicates that the consonant preceding a soft vowel is not palatalized, when it otherwise would be.
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Instead, one typed a period, backspaced, and typed an apostrophe.
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The glottal stop is written as either an apostrophe or as a superscript question mark.
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A new one was produced, minus the apostrophe, which he was happy with.
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Each chapter concludes with apostrophe to the poet himself containing his pen name.
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The apostrophe is not considered a letter and therefore is not taken into account when alphabetizing.
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Maps do not show the station name with apostrophe while the station signs do.
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Because of legibility problems (see lower contractions in the next section), they may not come in contact with an apostrophe or hyphen either.
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The keyboard contained all 26 letters, plus a star, which is used to represent markings other than letters such as apostrophes or hyphens.
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