LL-L "Orthography" 2008.09.20 (02) [E]

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From: Andy Eagle <andy at scots-online.org>
Subject: Orthography [S]

Hou's aw?

A many of you are aware, apostrophes have been a common feature of Scots
writing in the past. Now often referred to as apologetic apostrophes because
they supposedly representing missing letters creating the impression that
Scots is some kind of debased English.

Common examples are a' rather than aw (all), awa' rather than awa (away),
bealin' rather than bealin (festering), can'le rather than caunle (candle),
ca' rather than caw (call), de'il rather than deil (devil), fa't rather than
faut (falt), fu' rather than fou (full), gi'e rather than gie (give), ha'e
rather than hae (have), mak' rather than mak (make), o' rather than o (of),
o'er rather than ower (over), pu' rather than pou (pull), sa't rather than
saut (salt), ta'en rather than taen (taken), wi' rather than wi (with) and
where it represented the simplification of clusters like /ld/ and /nd/ in
words such as al ' oraul' rather than auld and han' or haun' rather than
haund

What I'm interested in are occurences that you may have come across where
the apostrophe simply makes no sense what so ever.

One I once saw on a flower seller's bike in Edinburgh was Bonnie floo'ers
rather than flooers orflouers (flowers). Have any you come accross others?
I'm trying to find examples.

Andy

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