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...published in 1939. The title is taken, with the careful subtraction of an apostrophe, from the title of a traditional Irish ballad, "Finnegan's Wake."

...il''' (compare '''íts''', which is a possessive without an apostrophe: the apostrophe is used for '''ít’s''' which means '''ít ís''': '''ít’s lícking í

The [[apostrophe]] is often used to represent the glottal stop in [[word (language)|words]]

-z, no apostrophe: '''hërs ...essive or an abbreviation of '''ís'''; many company names have dropped the apostrophe, leaving just a plural-looking -'''s''': -''''s

...Chinese government and used by most western scholars today. "Ch'i" (note apostrophe) is the correct spelling in the Wade-Giles system, which was widely used be

...Kahakō]] ([[Macron]]). In normal writing missionaries often substituted an apostrophe for the ʻokina, but decided that that they could not risk the confusion it

optional apostrophe: -nà '''Sána'a

...me necessary. As early as 1823, the missionaries made limited use of the [[apostrophe]] to represent the glottal stop, but they did not make it a letter of the a

...ment and used by (probably) most western scholars today. "Ch'i" (note the apostrophe!) is the correct spelling in the Wade-Giles system, which was widely used b

..., prâys, buŷs, óspreys, says''' (*séz) and of course not where there is an apostrophe intervening (for these are grammatically different): '''Dáddy’s, bâby�

The [[apostrophe]] is an important part of spelling and so it is treated as a letter, with i ...letter and its use in English. There are similar articles on [[GH]], the [[apostrophe]] and the [[hyphen]].

...lowêen''': '''Há'''-, AmE also '''Hà'''-; sometimes with a pedantic silent apostrophe -'''ê'en''' to indicate the missing '''v''' of -'''êven''' ''evening''

...a-Thon&oldid=100632353 I think it's gonna be the slanting vs. non-slanting apostrophe in the title. [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 00:52, 4 February 2010

*In some American writing, in what in British English would be a sounded apostrophe plus '''s''', the '''s''' is omitted in writing but still sounded: BrE '''J

...bylonian]] cultures. They are mentioned in the [[Book of Job]], as in this apostrophe:<ref>New International version of the English Bible, Job 38:31-32</ref>

* [[Apostrophe]]

'''Shìîte''': no apostrophe or hyphen

...ave schwa), '''Cânaan''' (double '''a'''), '''dógs’re''' (informal use of apostrophe) ...tain nouns, usually names, are written without the final -'''s''' after an apostrophe itself preceded by '''s''': '''Jônes'''' for '''Jônes's''', '''Kêats''''

...s can also be written as horizontal lines (macrons) above the vowels. The "apostrophe" in "Bahá'í" stands for a '''hamzih'' or [[glottal stop]]; otherwise Engl