On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, J Martin Rushton wrote: > There is a similar issue with the "apologetic apostrophe" in Scots. > From the 18thC to mid-20thC writers inserted apostrophes where Scots > didn't have a consonant that English does. For instance the English > word "give" is equivalent to the Scots word "gie". The apologetic > apostrophe would render this "gi'e" but this is now frowned upon.
Maybe someday writers of English will ha[v]e to use apologetic square brackets. -- Matthew Skala [email protected] People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
