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You might not encounter this much, but you could say “Make sure to dot your t’s and cross your i’s.” (The apostrophe is mostly so that, for instance, “I’s” doesn’t read as just the ...
A parent–teacher conference, parent–teacher interview, parent–teacher night, parents' evening or parent teacher meeting is a short meeting or conference between the parents and teachers of students to discuss a child's progress at school and find solutions to academic or behavioral problems. [1]
The apostrophe must not be used to indicate the possessive except – although not mandatory – when there is already an s, x or z present in the base form, as in Lukas' bok. Welsh uses the apostrophe to mark elision of the definite article yr ('the') following a vowel (a, e, i, o, u, y, or, in Welsh, w), as in i'r tŷ, 'to the house
Whatever possessed Vice President Kamala Harris to pick Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, it probably wasn’t a desire to inflame arguments about apostrophes. “The lower the stakes ...
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...
They’re not getting confused about whose running mate Tim Walz is.” If she wins in November, Harris would become the fourth U.S. president with a last name ending in S and the first since Rutherford B. Hayes, who was elected in 1876 — 130 years before the founding of Twitter — and was spared the social media frenzy over apostrophes.
Careful writers should use an apostrophe (U+2019 ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) in front of the t – and not confuse it with a left quotation mark (U+2018 ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) [1] and put a space before the apostrophe.
The 'apologetic' [1] or parochial apostrophe [2] is the distinctive use of apostrophes in some Modern Scots spelling. [3] Apologetic apostrophes generally occurred where a consonant exists in the Standard English cognate , as in a' (all), gi'e (give) and wi' (with).