Description: Apostrophe Atrophy was a photographic collection of bad typography. This was their website. Content is from the site's 2008 archived pages, as well as from other outside sources.
Apostrophe Atrophy was a photographic collection of bad typography. This was their website. Content is from the site's 2008 archived pages, as well as from other outside sources. Bob Sakayama & TNG/Earthling provided technical and search support.
The apostrophe has three uses : 1) to form possessive nouns; 2) to show the omission of letters; and 3 ) to indicate plurals of letters, numbers, and symbols.
The apostrophe (' or ') character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English it is used for several purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't).