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- Apostrophe vs. Single Quote - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
An apostrophe is typically interchangeable with a single-close-quote, but it can be different within a more specialized font face One could be forgiven for using a neutral single quote in a pinch (an abhorrent anachronism of mechanical typewriters)
- apostrophe - Is it mens or mens? And whats the rule? - English . . .
While you're in school you can spell it men's (also women's, children's, oxen's, sheep's, deer's) with just plain old Apostrophe-S You can't tell the singular from the plural possessive in speech, so there's no reason to do it in writing, either So after you get out you can just omit the apostrophe like we do in speaking and write mens room the way it's pronounced Most native speakers don't
- English notation for hour, minutes and seconds
I'm more used to "01:05:56", for example How do you represent the hour, minutes, and seconds using the apostrophe and quotes punctuations? Which is for the hour, which is for minutes, and which is for seconds? Is it the common way to write duration of time elapsed? Do they have a special pronunciation?
- Apostrophe s or ss - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Closed 5 years ago In this sentence should I use Apostrophe as s's or s'? I am always confused with what exactly the rule behind s' and s's The sentence is: Hours later Fadnavis's resignation, the the NCP-Congress leaders combined met Governor and staked claim to form the Government Fadnavis is the name of the Chief Minister (for your
- apostrophe - Its unconventional, but is Ts Cs technically . . .
It looks a bit weird and isn't the commonly used term, but is it not correct? The apostrophe would be marking the shortening of "terms" to "t" and "conditions" to "c", of course
- What is the short form for little ? Is it lil or lil?
The form lil is used, but the most common variant seems to be lil' (capitalized when it is a name) Wikipedia "Lil" is a kind of prefix and is the short form of "little" It is often spelled with an apostrophe as "Lil'" or "Li'l" When used as a prefix in comic or animation it can refer to a specific style of drawing where the characters appear in a chubby, childlike style These are normally
- grammar - Two years experience or two years experience or two years . . .
0 I will disagree, and support the position that an apostrophe indicating possession is now not necessary in such phrases - where the plural is being used So two weeks notice and two years experience are acceptable, however in the singular, the apostrophe is still required: one year's experience, or one week's notice
- punctuation - Any reference on the usage of a backtick and single . . .
A paper by Michael Everson written in 1999, On the apostrophe and quotation mark, with a note on Egyptian transliteration characters, submitted as working group document N2043 to the Unicode consortium
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