On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Andrew C. West wrote:
> On Tue, 20 August 2002, John Cowan wrote:
>
> > It has no sound, but neither does Romance "h"; both exist as a
> > marker of
> > etymology.
> >
>
> But in fact the apostrophe may have a sound in dialectal English, where it is
> used to represent a
> medial or final glotal stop (e.g. "a drin' a wa'er" for "a drink of water"
> in Cockney English). In
> this usage it is surely acting as a letter, not a punctuation mark.
>
> Andrew
>
>
Tuesday, August 20, 2002
There is also fo'c'sle, the abridged version of "forecastle". :-)
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