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Translingual citations of

Leading apostrophe[edit]

  • 1960 October 28, National Jewish Post and Opinion, volume XVI, number 10 (in English), page 3:
    Sure Tis Green Bagels We’ll Be Havin’ On St. Paddy’s Day in the Paddy Wagon Yet
  • 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X (in English), New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 111:
    Claire and I met Mr. and Mrs. M., “Phil n’ Irene,” one delicious day months ago when we looked over the fence and were assaulted by miasmic wafts of smoke and a happy holler from Mr. M. wearing a dinner’s on apron.
  • 1993 March 23, “Red-Nose Day Fund Drive Set”, in Athol Daily News, volume CCXXXII, number 68 (in English), Athol, Mass., page 2:
    During March and April, Shop n Save will have booths set up for individuals to contribute to the SIDS Alliance and receive a “Red Nose,” a “Chicken Badge,” or a “Car Nose.”
  • 2003, Dick Hobbs, Philip Hadfield, Stuart Lister, Simon Winlow, quoting Pauline, “Market Force: Class, Violence, and Liminal Business on the Night-time Frontier”, in Bouncers: Violence and Governance in the Night-time Economy (in English), Oxford University Press, →ISBN, section “Pauline’s story: where security meets protection”, page 215:
    But I don’t know if I was just stupid and hung on, I’m just so glad I’m out before Christmas cause I know it’s just going to start all over again.
  • 2003, (in English) Ohio Historical Marker (image), The Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Ohio Historical Society:
    BIRTHPLACE OF ROCK N’ ROLL
  • 2004 December, LaTonya Y. Williams, “An Offer You Can’t Refuse”, in Mixed Messages (in English), Farmingdale, N.Y.: United Brothers, Urban Books LLC, →ISBN, page 206:
    Then we got ice cream, but I didn’t eat all mine, so Nana put it in the frigerator for me to eat after dinner, and Hunter got it all over his clothes, and then Nana had to clean—
  • 2007, Earl Creps, “Postmodern Pentecostals? Emerging Subcultures Among Young Pentecostal Leaders”, in Eric Patterson, Edmund Rybarczyk, editors, The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States (in English), Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 30:
    One youth pastor described it to me this way: “I wouldn’t go to the drycleaners because I have an iron at home. But my [senior] pastor would make a ton of Folgers at the office, but won’t go to Starbucks. . . but I would go to Bucks for the environment.”
  • 2008, (in English) logo of Joe Biden 2008 presidential campaign (image):
    BIDEN / PRESIDENT 08
  • 2008, Sandra K. Nissenberg, The Everything Kids’ Cookbook: From Mac ‘n Cheese to Double Chocolate Chip Cookies—90 Recipes to Have Some Finger-Lickin’ Fun, 2nd edition (in English), Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Publications, →ISBN, title page:
    From mac n cheese to double chocolate chip cookies—90 recipes to have some finger-lickin’ fun
  • 2010 August 5, Meredith Corporation, “Your Weekly Recipe Newsletter”, in Parents (in English); published as Weekly Recipes - Parents.com, “Quick & Easy Chicken Recipes”, in Google Groups[1], 2010 August 5, archived from the original on 2023-10-08:
    Family Fave: Easy Mac n’ Cheesy
  • 2012, Alexandra Parsons, The Iconoclast’s Guide to Foodies: Unraveling the Mindset of a Food Snob in 50 Digestible Chunks[2] (in English), London, New York, N.Y.: Dog ‘n’ Bone Books, →ISBN:
    Published in 2012 by Dog n’ Bone Books
  • 2012, Garry Bushell, Time for Action: Essays on the Mod Revival from the ‘79 Frontline (in English), London: Countdown Books Limited, →ISBN, title page:
    ESSAYS ON THE MOD REVIVAL FROM THE 79 FRONTLINE.
  • 2013, Richard Cahill, “[Taking Care of Business] Waffle House of Pain”, in It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time for Lesbians and Abortionists (in English), Rockford, Ill.: Sweatshoppe Publications, →ISBN, page 104:
    The ancient Greeks made waffles? “Tons of em. Ate em by the plateful while they were braining up to invent Western civilization. Aristotle, Plato, Demosthenes, Bucephalus…all of them could wreak havoc on a stack of waffley goodness before you could say “I think, therefore I want more syrup.”
  • 2018, Katherine E. Bishop, “‘When ‘tis Night, Death is Green’: Vegetal Time in Nineteenth-Century Econoir”, in Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, volume 22, number 1 (in English), →DOI:
    ‘When tis Night, Death is Green’: Vegetal Time in Nineteenth-Century Econoir
  • 2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times[3] (in English), →ISSN:
    An adaptation of the European contradanza by slaves from West Africa, it is not only an early version of a New World rhythm that took over the globe, but also a direct ancestor for much of jazz and rock n’ roll.
  • 2019 June 13, L. Kent Wolgamott, “'Rocketman' and its knowing look at Elton John is a better rock biopic than 'Bohemian Rhapsody'”, in Lincoln Journal Star[4], archived from the original on 9 May 2024:
    That’s a tip-off that the film is a fantasy musical, ala Baz Luhrmann (“Moulin Rouge”). And “The Bitch is Back,” is sung by Taron Egerton, not John, in a Broadwayish rock n’ roll arrangement.
  • 2020 November 23, “Watch: Snuggling of These Insta-celeb Dogs in a Blanket will Melt Your Hearts”, in News18[5] (in English), Network18 Group, archived from the original on 23 November 2020:
    And just like the world of human Instagram influencers, there are some doggos and cattos on the gram who steal hearts every time their faces appear on the screen.
  • 2021, Katrina Jorgensen, No-Fail Favorite Eats (in English), North Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Press, →ISBN, page 16:
    Ooey, Gooey Mac n Cheesy / Creamy and delicious mac and cheese is where it’s at.
  • 2022 July 14, Claire Sullivan, “I Went To Pizza Hut’s All You Can Eat Restaurant and Had an Existential Crisis”, in Vice[6] (in English), archived from the original on 2022-07-14:
    Were you really a child of the 90s/ 00s in Australia if you didn’t go to a birthday party at a Pizza Hut All You Can Eat restaurant, only for you (or your friend) to spew in the toilet because you (or your friend) went wild on the endless red fizzy drink?
  • 2022 September 6, Alexander Larman, “The Harry ‘n’ Meghan circus shows no sign of coming to an end”, in The Spectator[7] (in English):
    The Harry n’ Meghan circus shows no sign of coming to an end.
  • 2022 October 18, Clyde, “A Beginner’s Guide to using Discord Apps”, in Discord Blog[8] (in English), archived from the original on 2022-10-18:
    If you’re in a server that already has apps, usually there are already tons of people already interacting with it — ask your servermates what the Slash Commands do, or watch a friend use them if you’re too shy to try em yourself.
  • 2022 November 2, Karina Antenucci, “Entrepreneurs making Black (business) beautiful”, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, volume 74, number 306 (in English), page C1:
    [] Business thrives where it is nourished, and Atlanta feeds its Black beautypreneurs,” said Kiana Baldon, CEO of Jentl, a body care brand she started in her kitchen in 2017.