- 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?
- What is the short form for little ? Is it lil or lil?
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 characterisations of adults (real or fictional) and are particularly common in Manga or satire (such as Lil Bush)
- 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
- 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
- Is double prime (″) the correct symbol to use for specifying inches . . .
In short, yes This is mentioned here and (a nice blog) here In addition, it is commonly referenced in typography manuals to specifically use the double prime instead of the quotation mark, or the double apostrophe
- FAQs vs FAQs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
When using FAQs, wouldn't the Qs be a contraction of Questions (as it is already plural)? In which case wouldn't that need an apostrophe?
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