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 Translation for 'apostrophe' from English to Finnish
NOUN   an apostrophe | apostrophes
kiel.
heittomerkki {noun}
apostrophe
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Translation for 'apostrophe' from English to Finnish

apostrophe
heittomerkki {noun}kiel.
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Usage Examples English
  • When a "vertical apostrophe" is used above one or more syllables, any syllable without a vertical apostrophe carries the neutral tone: Hànyǔ Pīnyīn "lái le" is "la̍iv-le" in Simplified Wade.
  • In most formal documents and newspapers, the headlines and headings use the full name as Mangu High School without the apostrophe.
  • Some older locations retain signage with the company's name including a possessive apostrophe, despite the fact that the official styling of the company's name has been "Tim Hortons", without an apostrophe, for at least a decade.
  • Currently most typists do not bother with the differentiation between the modifier letter turned comma and modifier letter apostrophe as their keyboard layouts likely accommodate only the straight apostrophe.
  • The name of the band is correctly spelt without an apostrophe.

  • Both are typically rendered with a straight apostrophe-like shape sometimes described as a "dotless exclamation point".
  • On the album, it is spelled without an apostrophe on the back cover, but with the apostrophe on the CD.
  • The use of an apostrophe in the name "Yup’ik", compared to Siberian "Yupik", exemplifies the Central Alaskan Yup’ik's orthography, where "the apostrophe represents gemination lengthening of the ‘p’ sound".
  • For abbreviations, including acronyms, the use of "s" without an apostrophe is now more common than its use with an apostrophe.
  • He used a slash instead of an apostrophe mark for contractions and did not use an apostrophe at all for possessives.

  • The apostrophe (code 27), which may originally have been intended to be a neutral apostrophe as in ASCII, is now recommended to be rendered as a right single quotation mark (Unicode U+2019).
  • In this standard (as well as in ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode), there's only one Armenian apostrophe modifier letter encoded at 0x49 when Armenian uses two modifier letter apostrophes which are cased (U+055A represents the capital apostrophe but is not considered dual-cased in Unicode and this ISO 15985 standard, the small letter apostrophe is absent but generally represented by the ASCII apostrophe U+0027 in Unicode documents).
  • Because of its common misuse on greengrocers' signs, an apostrophe used incorrectly to form a plural—such as "apple's", "orange's", or "banana's"—is known as a greengrocers' apostrophe.
  • In Malaysia, the variant spellings "Datuk", "Dato'" (with apostrophe), "Dato" (without apostrophe) and "Datu" are used.
  • The use of apostrophe for opening quotes, the need on some typewriters to overprint apostrophe and period to get an exclamation mark, and the lack of a mirrored double-quote character, tended to change the apostrophe to the modern "typewriter" design that is vertical, so this no longer works.

  • The plural can be written with an erroneous apostrophe ("grocer's apostrophe" in Britain): "apple's and pear's".
  • The straight apostrophe [...] (the "ASCII apostrophe", [...]) is even more ambiguous, as it could also be intended as a left or right quotation mark, or a prime symbol.
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