Other forms: apostrophes
An apostrophe is the raised mark showing a missing letter or possession. A misplaced apostrophe.
It never makes a plural, which is the rule broken on more shop signs than any other. An apostrophe in its shows possession only when it does not, since it's means it is.
1nounapostropheThe raised mark showing a missing letter or possession.
“One apostrophe in the sign was in the wrong place for eleven years.”
apostrophe is a mark.
Greek apostrophos means a mark of elision, from apostrephein, to turn away.
Ancient Greek
ἀπόστροφος — accent of elision
Latin
apostrophus
French
apostrophe
English, today
apostrophe
Built from
From French apostrophe, or Latin apostrophus, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστροφος (“accent of elision”), a noun use of an adjective from ἀποστρέφω (“to turn away”), from ἀπό (“away from”) + στρέφω (“to turn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA