[Magdalen] oh, dear

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 22 02:48:14 UTC 2017


Well, I get annoyed, because the default on my cell phone is to put any apostrophe in the word "it's"--see!-- anytime I type it, regardless of how I'm using it. So I try to be vigilant about correcting it, but once in awhile it slips through.

> On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:31 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The modern apostrophe was just being invented (and was not yet
> standardized) way back then.
> 
> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/417380/the-curious-case-of-the-evolving-apostrophe/
> -M
> 
> "Of Mans First Disobedience...."
>> 


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