A pox on the person who decided to use the apostrophe as a letter
in Latin script. It has no upper-case form, it doesn't feel like
a letter, it cannot be joined to other letters in script, and it is
often disregarded. Its cousin the turned apostrophe (used in
Hawai`ian, the Wade-Giles romanisation of Chinese, and other writing
systems) enjoys all these disadvantages and one more: it is easily
mistaken for the regular apostrophe.
A double pox on the person who thought it convenient to use the
apostrophe and the turned apostrophe as distinct and unrelated letters
in, for example, transcriptions of Arabic.
Scott Horne
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