apologetic apostrophe造句

• Latterly the use of the apologetic apostrophe to represent'missing'English letters has been avoided.
• Most proposals entailed regularising the use of established 18th-19th century conventions and avoiding the'apologetic apostrophe '.
• These writings also introduced what came to be known as the apologetic apostrophe, generally occurring where a consonant exists in the Standard English cognate.
• This variety abandoned some of the more distinctive old Scots spellings, adopted many standard English spellings ( although from the rhymes it is clear that a Scots pronunciation was intended ) and introduced what came to be known as the apologetic apostrophe, generally occurring where a consonant exists in the Standard English cognate.
• Commenting on this, John Corbett ( 2003 : 260 ) writes that " devising a normative orthography for Scots has been one of the greatest linguistic hobbies of the past century . " Most proposals entailed regularising the use of established 18th and 19th century conventions, in particular the avoidance of the apologetic apostrophe.
• Commenting on this, John Corbett ( 2003 : 260 ) writes that " devising a normative orthography for Scots has been one of the greatest linguistic hobbies of the past century . " Most proposals entailed regularising the use of established eighteenth and nineteenth century conventions, in particular the avoidance of the apologetic apostrophe which supposedly represented " missing " English letters.