apologetic apostrophe
The English word “apologetic apostrophe” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
- A similar apostrophe added to a present participle of the -in form in English or in Scots, producing -in', according to the emic notion that the /ŋ/ is always contracted (as opposed to the forms coexisting allophonically).
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