Apostrophe

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

An apostrophe is an exclamatory figure of speech. It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes absent from the scene.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Apostrophe (figure of speech)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.