Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxr.466 Posted: Mon Jun 13 11:16:23 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 14-Jun-83 19:37:14 EDT Lines: 4 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".