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The apostrophes represent the sounds that are removed and are not spoken but help the reader to understand that it is a contraction and not a word of its own. These contractions used to be written out when transcribed (i.e. cannot , is not , I am ) even if they were pronounced as a contraction, but now they are always written as a contraction ...
The Apostrophe to Zion, written as a love poem to Zion, is one of two non-Masoretic compositions that are complete in the Great Psalm Scroll. It has the "same style as three biblical apostrophes in Isaiah 54:1-8, 60:1-22, 62:1-8" and another copy of this composition can be found in 4Q88.
I've just fixed a couple of grammatical errors in the quote from Lorraine Hansberry's book - a missing apostrophe, an incorrect verb, and so forth. I'm a little hesitant to change what claims to be a direct quote, but judging from the context, Lorraine was very well-spoken, and I doubt her book would have contained such errors in the final edit ...
The "Banksy of punctuation," who uses stickers rather than paint, denies it's a crime to go around the city to improve standards.
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The White House in a transcript of the speech also added an apostrophe to the 81-year-old’s poorly timed criticism less than five days before the 2024 election.
Apostrophes: A Book of Tributes to Masters of Music is a book written by Alfred Kreymborg and published by The Grafton Press, New York, in 1910. It is a slim volume (with no page numbers), and comprises a series of short somewhat 'poetic' paragraphs addressed to various great composers.
Apologetic apostrophes generally occurred where a consonant exists in the Standard English cognate, as in a' (all), gi'e (give) and wi' (with). The practice, unknown in Older Scots , was introduced in the 18th century [ 4 ] by writers such as Allan Ramsay , [ 5 ] Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns as part of a process of Anglicisation .