apostrophe .
apostrophes to make things plural.
The apostrophe has long been a polarizing issue amongst otherwise rational people.
Missing apostrophes like these are met with dismay and anger by those concerned about linguistic standards who fear that such changes are undermining our ability
But since the apostrophe can signal possession, it is reasonable to assume that the neuter possessive pronoun "its" should also have an apostrophe .
But you added the apostrophe , n, t.
it takes an APOSTROPHE -S and your Spell Checker will mark it wrong.
It's seldom recognized that the apostrophe is, of course, just a feature of the written language with no spoken language correspondence.
Insecurity about where to place the apostrophe increasing leads to its omission.
so-called the greengrocer's apostrophe because it's, apparently, most commonly used by greengrocers advertising apples, and oranges, and so on with apostrophe S. There's
it was very common to write apostrophe S for the plural, as you can see in that example there-- "Handel's Opera's."
Male Audience Member #9: Is an apostrophe wrong?
obsessed with the presence or absence of apostrophes .
He insisted on dropping all apostrophes and so wrote "can't" and "he's" without apostrophes -- like that because, he said, there is no--
I was on the radio talking for 20 minutes on the apostrophe .
He doesn't know where to put the apostrophe .
He's like Z, apostrophe , A-T-A-R.
--which is basically that long stick with an apostrophe on the end of it.
Giles' apostrophe or with no apostrophe .
And in fact, the apostrophe in the history of English is a relatively recent innovation.
in the distinction between its and it's-- I-T- apostrophe S and I-T-S.
the new pronoun was indeed initially written I-T- apostrophe S for the possessive, just as it is here in the first folio of Shakespeare
But these are some black marker penned-in apostrophes in Scholars' Walk and Pepys' Court.
When it comes to the serious business of apostrophes , even the laid-back lexicographers
But is the apostrophe really so crucial to the well-being of our society?
like here-- the boy's, apostrophe S, book, where the understanding was that here, something had been contracted or omitted.
And so as a consequence, the apostrophe has taken on two slightly different and contradictory roles to signal both elision and now also possession.
And of course, we still use the apostrophe S when we're writing plurals of things like P's and Q's and do's and don'ts.
Q apostrophe E-D Up, because it's from KQED.
an it, you would use an APOSTROPHE -S. Only nouns take an APOSTROPHE -S to become possessive.
It's an APOSTROPHE -S. But every single time, spell checker will mark it wrong.
You could say 'Levis'' with just an apostrophe or you could say 'Levi's' with an apostrophe -s. It's a style choice.
And he goes around climbing up ladders in pitch dark and putting in missing apostrophes into street signs and shop signs.
as you see here, with additional apostrophes to indicate the proper contractions.
And yes, that's bitchin' with an apostrophe .
And of course, let's not even go into whether it should be Pepys' apostrophe or Pepy's-- apostrophe S.
Part of the reason for our unwillingness to accept the changing meanings of words like "fulsome" and the demise of the apostrophe is
but in last week's Grammar Girl transcript, there was an I-T apostrophe S where there should not have been an apostrophe .
that sort of helps me get it right most of the time is that I noticed that we use APOSTROPHE -S
>>Male Audience Member #9: I was wearing Levis and an apostrophe might look >>Mignon Fogarty: Yes.
It's not common to see someone use an apostrophe after something like 'Levis' to make it plural.
It used to be more common, commonly acceptable to use an apostrophe to make something like that plural. So the New York Times used an apostrophe
Now, of course, many today will happily omit apostrophes in emails and tweets, but others still insist on including it.
So I'm talking to you now using lots of contractions, not apostrophes , and somehow you're still understanding me.
the message boards under my own name and I said "Then why do they all have V's and Z's and apostrophes in their name" Sony didn't appreciate that, but, so, you
Put apostrophes when you need 'em and otherwise just delete 'em.
for in your writing because it's so easy to make because you have that association in your mind of apostrophes with possessives.
Now, probably the classic feature of English usage that's really liable to raise the blood pressure of those concerned with correctness is the apostrophe .
The former chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, John Simpson, in his recent memoir, "The Word Detective," says of the apostrophe , "The English are temperamentally
And this led to Cambridge Council rapidly reversing the decision, giving in to public pressure and restoring the precious apostrophe to the street