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Apostrophized vs Apostrophised - What's the difference?

apostrophized | apostrophised |

As verbs the difference between apostrophized and apostrophised

is that apostrophized is (apostrophize) while apostrophised is (apostrophise).

apostrophized

English

Verb

(head)
  • (apostrophize)

    • apostrophize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * apostrophise

    Verb

  • to use the apostrophe figure of speech in writing or speech
    • (c1850): "You little thought,” said Mr. Pumblechook, apostrophizing the fowl in the dish, “when you was a young fledgling, what was in store for you. Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens.
    (1894): "...she resumed her former occupation, and continued to soliloquize and apostrophize her absent handmaidens, without even appearing sensible of his presence. St.Ronan's Well, by Sir Walter Scott.
  • to add one or more apostrophe characters to text to indicate missing letters

    • See also

    * apostrophe

    apostrophised

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (apostrophise)

    • apostrophise

    English

    Verb

    (apostrophis)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}