Thursday 27 December 2012

Apostrophe catastrophe, # 1

Leaving aside the hideous pun, note that the mark in front of the n isn't an apostrophe but an open inverted comma or quotation mark, while another letter in the word has been omitted and not marked at all:



The Oxford Dictionaries website shows how to do this abbreviation of 'and' correctly, using two apostrophes, on its 'apostrophe' page:


* See also the Its and it's entry on this blog


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