chic'

[Wilson Gray]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

> The significance of the apostrophe is possibly that the writer assumes the
> "chick" pronunciation, knows how the French word is pronounced, and uses
> the apostrophe to mark "chic'" for the "chick" pronunciation.
>

Or possibly considers _chic_ to be a special, "hip" spelling of _chick_
that "needs" an apostrophe to indicate that "fact."

Youneverknow.


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