Punctuation: Number Sign, Diacritic, Pilcrow, Ampersand, Quotation Mark, Colon, Apostrophe, Slash, Bracket, Question Mark, Decimal

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Chapters: Number sign, Diacritic, Pilcrow, Ampersand, Quotation mark, Colon, Apostrophe, Slash, Bracket, Question mark, Decimal mark, Word divider, Dagger, Ellipsis, Comma, Asterisk, Semicolon, Hyphen, Bullet, Interpunct, Solidus, Sentence spacing, Non-English usage of quotation marks, At sign, Dash, Tilde, Exclamation mark, Serial comma, Hebrew punctuation, Full stop, Japanese typographic symbols, Japanese punctuation, Quotation mark glyphs, Scare quotes, Geresh, Chinese punctuation, Inverted nun, Interrobang, Vertical bar, Percent sign, Euro sign, Guillemets, Prime, Inverted question and exclamation marks, Backslash, Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Irony punctuation, Caret, Comma splice, Tie, Overline, Currency, Underscore, Meteg, Pound sign, Gershayim, Double hyphen, Plenken, Kai, The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks, Therefore sign, Section sign, Run-on sentence, Obelism, Terminal punctuation, Ditto mark, Air quotes, Arabic star, Tai tou, Asterism, Diple, National Punctuation Day, Parenthesis, Coronis, Apostrophe Protection Society, Hyphen-minus, Paragraphos, Hypodiastole, Korean punctuation, Pallawa, East Asian punctuation. Excerpt: The apostrophe ( ', often rendered as ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes: According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word comes ultimately from Greek (, " 'turning away', or elision"), through Latin and French. The apostrophe is different from the closing single quotation mark (usually rendered identically but serving a different purpose), from the similar-looking prime ( ), which is used to indicate measurement in feet or arcminutes, as well as for various mathematical purposes, and from the okina ( ), which represents a glottal stop in Polynesian lan...

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First published June 4, 2010