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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: single quote = pop
Message-ID: <466@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 11:16:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 11:16:23 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 19:37:14 EDT
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We used to call a single quote a "pop", which is short for apostrophe.
I can't understand how this nice little piece of nomenclature, which
fits in so comfortably among the "bangs" and "burps" and so on, got
overlooked in favor of the prolix and unimaginative "single quote".