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apostrophe

(n): address to an absent or imaginary person
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about 16 hours ago reesetee said:

At last! :-D

1 day ago bilby said:

Speaking of stickers, help is at hand.

2 months ago Milosrdenstvi said:

Etymologically: apo-strophe, a from-turning (or turning-from, I guess)

9 months ago bilby said:

Sounds like you have a lot more guerilla bestickering ahead, sarra.

9 months ago sionnach said:

So the plural of datum is dat'a?

9 months ago sarra said:

skip, you missed the deliberate irony in that headline!

I am slightly miffed that no-one's reported on my bestickering, long ago, an apostropheless St Philip's Place (also Birmingham). You heard it here first. Or last.

about 1 year ago mollusque said:

No, because CD is more than one letter. The plural is CDs.

about 1 year ago gangerh said:

Is that true, mollusque? I don't remember ever knowing that. So cd's is correct for more than one cd, is it?

about 1 year ago mollusque said:

Except for plurals of letters (e.g., "a's", "b's", not "as", "bs").

about 1 year ago bilby said:

Goe's without saying.

about 1 year ago gangerh said:

An apostrophe does not a plural make.

about 1 year ago gangerh said:

I'd give up my whole apostrophe to have an id.

about 1 year ago frindley said:

Remember always to use an apostrophe (not an open quote mark) when it appears at the beginning of a word, e.g. ’cause (for because) and ’60s rather than ‘cause and ‘60s.

Alas, the evil microsoft delights in making unsolicited corrections.

over 2 years ago Evin290 said:

A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea

over 2 years ago uselessness said:

Don't put apostrophe's where they don't belong.

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