An apostrophe that has a straight, vertically symmetrical form, contrasted with the curved typographic apostrophe.

A typewriter apostrophe.

Alternative form of typographic apostrophe.

Alternative form of greengrocer's apostrophe

plural of typewriter apostrophe

An incorrectly used apostrophe, especially one mistakenly used to form the plural of a noun, for example to write the plural of banana as banana's instead of bananas.

(sociolinguistics, orthography) An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.

plural of greengrocer's apostrophe

plural of apologetic apostrophe

(transitive, rare) To add an apostrophe inappropriately