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The ambivalent apostrophe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Greta D Little
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Abstract

Punctuation marks like the comma and the question mark are fairly secure in ‘literate’ usage, but one cannot say the same for the apostrophe, whose curious and unstable history and present condition merit some thought.

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Special Features
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English Today , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 15 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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