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The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for three basic purposes:
- Marking the omission of one or more letters, as in the contraction of "do not" to "don't".
- Indicating the possessive case of nouns, such as "the eagle's feathers", "in one month's time", "at your parents' [home]".
- Denoting plurals of individual characters, for example, "p's and q's" or Oakland A's.
The term "apostrophe" originates from the Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος [προσῳδία] (hē apóstrophos [prosōidía], '[the accent of] turning away or elision'), passing through Latin and French. For use in computer systems, Unicode has code points for three different forms of apostrophe.
In standard English usage, when a noun is a normal plural with an added "s", no extra "s" is added in the possessive form. For instance, "the neighbours' garden" indicates that more than one neighbor owns the garden. However, if the plural is irregular, formed by means other than adding "s", an "s" is added after the apostrophe to form the possessive: "children's hats", "women's hairdresser", "some people's eyes".
Exceptions exist for English nouns with plurals not spelled with a final "s" but ending in an /s/ or /z/ sound, such as "mice" (plural of "mouse"), "dice" (when pluralized from "die"), and "pence" (plural of "penny"). In such cases, the possessive is formed by adding an apostrophe and an "s" in the standard manner: "seven titmice's tails were found", "the dice's last fall was a seven", "his few pence's value was not enough to buy bread". Whenever possible, these constructions may be rephrased, as in "the last fall of the dice was a seven".
