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Jason7377 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Apostraphe
If you were to say "feet, fail me not!" Would that be an apostraphe?
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" Would that be an apostraphe? I believe this is spelled 'apostrophe', although it's not the common meaning of the word. If you accept the meaning to be 'rhetorically addressing someone or something that cannot respond', then yes, it is.
- " Would that be an apostraphe?
- I believe this is spelled 'apostrophe', although it's not the common meaning of the word.
- If you accept the meaning to be 'rhetorically addressing someone or something that cannot respond', then yes, it is.
- However, it often also refers to someone or something not present, so with that as part of the definition you could argue that it isn't.
- The Latin/Greek origin of the word relates to 'a turning away'.
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Hi,
If you were to say "feet, fail me not!" Would that be an apostraphe?
I believe this is spelled 'apostrophe', although it's not the common meaning of the word.
If you accept the meaning to be 'rhetorically addressing someone or something that cannot respond', then yes, it is.
However, it often also refers to someone or something not prese
If you were to say "feet, fail me not!" Would that be an apostraphe?
I believe this is spelled 'apostrophe', although it's not the common meaning of the word.
If you accept the meaning to be 'rhetorically addressing someone or something that cannot respond', then yes, it is.
However, it often also refers to someone or something not prese
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