apologetic apostrophe

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
    — While not all agreements were carried out as planned, what this attempt at consistency achieved in Smith's case was to give his poetry the appearance of a distinctive literary language, related to English, but having its own identity and forms, and without the distraction for the reader of the apologetic apostrophes.
  2. 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).

词形变化

apologetic apostrophes plural
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