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unusual facts about Apostrophe



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German keyboard layout

Therefore, it contains several additional diacritical marks and punctuation characters, including the full set of German, English, and French style quotation marks in addition to the typographic apostrophe, the prime, the double prime, and the ʻokina.

Lovers Walk

Most likely, the title is a nod to the Elvis Costello song of the same name (which also doesn't contain an apostrophe) from the album Trust.

Over-Nite Sensation

Over-Nite Sensation (1973) and Apostrophe (') (1974) are the subject of a Classic Albums series documentary from Eagle Rock Entertainment, released on DVD May 1, 2007.

Palatalization

In using the Latin alphabet for Uralic languages, palatalization is typically denoted with an acute accent, as in Võroś⟩; an apostrophe, as in Karelian ⟨s’⟩; or digraphs in j, as in the Savo dialect of Finnish, ⟨sj⟩.

Prenasalized consonant

Ghana's politician Kwame Nkrumah had a prenasalized stop in his name, as does the capital of Chad, N'Djamena (African prenasalized stops are often written with apostrophes in Latin script transcription although this may sometimes indicate syllabic nasals instead).

River Wye

The Romantic poet William Wordsworth includes an apostrophe to the Wye in his famous poem "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" published 1798 in Lyrical Ballads


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