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My guess would be that a lot of people saw '70s, and eventually enough of them got things mixed up in the same way that the error became self-perpetuating.
by thfuran 4y ago
My guess would be that a lot of people saw '70s, and eventually enough of them got things mixed up in the same way that the error became self-perpetuating.
- satvikpendem 4y agoYep, apostrophes replace characters. The apostrophe in '70s replaces the 19 in 1970s. For contractions like "it's," it replaces the i in "it is."