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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).
Writers also began using the apologetic apostrophe, [64] to mark "missing" English letters. For example, the older Scots spelling taen / tane (meaning "taken") became ta'en ; even though the word had not been written or pronounced with a "k" for hundreds of years. 18th–19th century Scots drew on the King James Bible and was heavily influenced ...
Commenting on this, John Corbett (2003: 260) writes that "devising a normative orthography for Scots has been one of the greatest linguistic hobbies of the past century". Most proposals entailed regularising the use of established 18th and 19th century conventions, in particular the avoidance of the apologetic apostrophe.
An apostrophe is not an accessory. Here are examples of how and when to use an apostrophe—and when you definitely shouldn't. The post Here’s When You Should Use an Apostrophe appeared first on ...
Scots [note 1] is a language variety descended from Early Middle English in the West Germanic language family.Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles of Scotland, and northern Ulster in Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots), it is sometimes called: Lowland Scots, to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language that was historically ...
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3 Apologetic apostrophe in Scottish Gaelic. 4 comments. 4 Why is it called apologetic? 2 comments. 5 Could be clearer. 2 comments. 6 First sentence. 2 comments.
Apostrophe – a figure of speech consisting of a sudden turn in a text towards an exclamatory address to an imaginary person or a thing. Arete – virtue, excellence of character, qualities that would be inherent in a "natural leader", a component of ethos. Argument – discourse characterized by reasons advanced to support conclusions.