Meaning of apologetic apostrophe | Babel Free

Definitions

An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.

Examples

“While not all agreements were carried out as planned, what this attempt at consistency achieved in Smith's case was to give his poetry the appearance of a distinctive literary language, related to English, but having its own identity and forms, and without the distraction for the reader of the apologetic apostrophes.”

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