apostrophe
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Even then, the apostrophe in the logo was a pepper.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025
He recently added an apostrophe to his first name, now stylized as “Tre’.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025
A resident protested after noticing no apostrophe on a replacement sign for St Mary's Terrace in Twyford, Hampshire.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023
And four decades after that, Barack Obama retraced the steps of a great-great-great-grandfather from Moneygall, in County Offaly, joking that the Obamas had come “to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2023
For example, shouldn’t is short for should not-, the apostrophe shows where the o in not was dropped.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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