apologetic apostrophe

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === apologetic apostrophe (plural apologetic apostrophes) (sociolinguistics, orthography) An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word. 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). ==== See also ====