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Haha, I guess I have sung this sea shanty too often: https://youtu.be/He7X5jGt8lY https://youtu.be/He7X5jGt8lY

• kseistrup 5y ago
  — and I would like to add that in addition to omitted letters, the apostrophy can also indicate pronunciation (which is the case here).
  • specialist 5y ago
    Huh. Your comments made me wonder if there are any English words, perhaps acknowledged in a dictionary, containing punctuation. A quick poking around suggests the answer is: no.
  • celticninja 5y ago
    I guess that is what I meant by conveying accent, but pronunciation is the correct term, evidently escaping me at the time.
  • ipaddr 5y ago
    I don't think that is true. Look at what your sentence fragment would be: the a'os'rophy can al'o in'i'ate pro'nun'i'tion If you leave out those letters you are omitting the important beginning sounds of each sylible. You generally want to highlight that sound and hide unnecessary characters.
    • kseistrup 5y ago
      If you had taken the time to listen to the video, you would have heard that the 'w' in 'northward' was indeed omitted in the pronunciation as well as in the spelling.
• leephillips 5y ago
  Pretty awesome, that.