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apostrophe [əˈpɒstrəfɪ, Am -ˈpɑ:strə-] N

1. apostrophe LING:

apostrophe

апостро́ф m

2. apostrophe LIT:

apostrophe

апостро́фа f

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As we can see in the table, the glottal stop can be written with either a raised dot or an apostrophe. en.wikipedia.org

The company does not use an apostrophe in its name, although others sometimes mistakenly do so. en.wikipedia.org

This is yet another reason to use apostrophes only for possessives and not for plurals. en.wikipedia.org

The fakamoga is nowadays taught at schools, and can be written with straight, curly or inverted curly apostrophes. en.wikipedia.org

The apostrophe is a remnant of the original exclamation mark. en.wikipedia.org

The apostrophe is not considered a letter and therefore is not taken into account when alphabetizing. en.wikipedia.org

The apostrophe indicates that the consonant preceding a soft vowel is not palatalized, when it otherwise would be. en.wikipedia.org

Commas, apostrophes and other punctuation marks are also based on the diagonal square dot. en.wikipedia.org

Later conventions removed the apostrophe from subjective and objective case forms and added it after the -s in possessive case forms. en.wikipedia.org

The keyboard contained all 26 letters, plus a star, which is used to represent markings other than letters such as apostrophes or hyphens. en.wikipedia.org

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