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apostrophe

Definition:

(nou) address to an absent or imaginary person (nou) the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Phonetic Transcription:

əˈpɒstrəfi

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At the moment the apostrophe is winning.

At the moment, the apostrophe is winning.

It was the equivalent of the ASCII apostrophe.

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