So, I’m working on polishing up a manuscript, and guess what? My apostrophes were pointing the wrong way for certain kinds of contractions: Shoot ’em, ‘nother one for the road, ‘fraidy pants.
Think of apostrophes as the number 9
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Think of a left single quote as a letter 6
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So, words that start with an apostrophe should start with the letter 9.
John L. Monk 