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What is an apologetic apostrophe?

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An apologetic apostrophe is an apostrophe added to a word in the Scots language or dialect to give the appearance of a contraction of an originally English word - for example, the words gi'e (give), ba' (ball), or ca' (call).

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The 'apologetic'or parochial apostrophe is the use of apostrophes in Modern Scots orthography. The apostrophe replaces one or more letters in a word.

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