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Tangential, since it's not what this article is about, but it's worth noting that the apostrophe acts as something of a 27th letter in English.
by Sniffnoy 4y ago
Tangential, since it's not what this article is about, but it's worth noting that the apostrophe acts as something of a 27th letter in English.
- midoridensha 4y agoAnd when it's combined with an 's', and added to the end of a noun, it denotes that the word is plural, in modern English usage.
- wl 4y agoThe problem with calling an apostrophe a letter is that in standard usage, it doesn't change how you read (prosody) or pronounce the text. Sometimes it's used in transliterating foreign words to indicate a glottal stop (an actual sound!) or as a syllable divider, but that's not really English at that point.