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The apostrophe (, ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes: * The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g. the contraction of "do not" to "don't" * The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in "the eagle's feathers", "in one month's time", "the twins' coats") It is also used in a few exceptional cases for the marking of plurals, e.g. "p's and q's" or Oakland A's. The same mark is used as a single quotation mark. It is also substituted informally for other marks for example instead of the prime symbol to indicate the units of foot or minutes of arc. The word ''apostrophe'' comes from the Greek (hē apóstrophos rosōidía ' he accent ofturning away or elision'), through Latin and French. Usage in English Historical development The apostrophe was first used by Pietro Bembo in his edition of '' De Aetna'' (1496). It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The character is represented by 39 in ASCII and in Unicode. It is used as: * Apostrophe (as straight version of the character), a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark * Single quotation mark (as straight version of the and characters) Informal use Being supplied as standard on many keyboard layouts, it is often used in informal contexts to replace other similar looking characters that include: Diacritical marks * Acute accent (), a diacritic used in many modern written languages * Aleph (), is the first letter of the Semitic abjads * Apex (diacritic), Apex (), a diacritic used to indicate a long vowel in Latin * Dakuten and handakuten, Dakuten, japanese diacritic ** ** * Geresh (), a sign in Hebrew writing * Smooth breathing or ''spiritus lenis'' (), a Diacritic, diacritical mark used in polytonic orthography * Greek diacritics, Tonos (), single diacritic that indicates stress in monotonic orthography for Modern Greek Modifier letter punctuation * Modifier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
