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  2. Apostrophe - Wikipedia

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    To make typographic apostrophes easier to enter, word processing and publishing software often convert typewriter apostrophes to typographic apostrophes during text entry (at the same time converting opening and closing single and double quotes to their standard left-handed or right-handed forms). A similar facility may be offered on web ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Use straight apostrophes ('), not curly apostrophes (’). [ g ] Do not use accent marks or backticks ( ` ) as apostrophes. Templates such as {{ ' }} and {{ 's }} are helpful when an apostrophe (or single quote) appears at the beginning or end of text in italics or bold, because italics and bold are themselves indicated by sequences of single ...

  4. Apostrophe (figure of speech) - Wikipedia

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    An apostrophe is an exclamatory figure of speech. [1] It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes absent from the scene. Often the addressee is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object.

  5. Typographical error - Wikipedia

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    The Wicked Bible The Judas Bible in St. Mary's Church, Totnes, Devon, UK. The Wicked Bible omits the word "not" in the commandment, "thou shalt not commit adultery".. The Judas Bible is a copy of the second folio edition of the authorized version, printed by Robert Barker, printer to James VI and I, in 1613, and given to the church for the use of the Mayor of Totnes.

  6. Template:Punctuation marks in Unicode - Wikipedia

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    SMALL PERCENT SIGN U+FE6A: Po, other Common ﹫ SMALL COMMERCIAL AT U+FE6B: Po, other Common ! FULLWIDTH EXCLAMATION MARK U+FF01: Po, other Common " FULLWIDTH QUOTATION MARK U+FF02: Po, other Common # FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN U+FF03: Po, other Common % FULLWIDTH PERCENT SIGN U+FF05: Po, other Common & FULLWIDTH AMPERSAND U+FF06: Po ...

  7. 'Grammar vigilante' sneaks around at night fixing bad apostrophes

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  8. American Sign Language grammar - Wikipedia

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    For the sign SIT, a verb, a person would tap these fingers together only once and with more force. Inflectional morphology adds units of language to other words. [3] For example, this would be changing 'watch' to 'watches' or 'watching.' In ASL, the sign may remain unchanged as WATCH, or the meaning may change based on NMM (Non-Manual-Markers).

  9. Apostrophe Protection Society - Wikipedia

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    The Apostrophe Protection Society is a UK-based society with "the specific aim of preserving the correct use of this currently much abused punctuation mark" across the English-speaking world. [1] Founded in 2001, it is now chaired by Bob McCalden.