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Old 08-18-2011, 07:41 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by sourcejedi View Post
So the script skips everything that's definitely _not_ an apostrophe (because it's not immediately after a word), and flags all the remaining apostrophe-like characters for review.

<p>Rock ‘n’* Roll *</p>

(The second * indicates that the paragraph contains exactly one unambiguous open-quote, so that exactly one of the starred apostrophes is playing the role of an close-quote. But that's wrong, which means there must be an error: the open-quote character needs to be changed to become an apostrophe).
Do you call the first apostrope in "Rock 'n' Roll" an "unambiguous open-quote"? And do you say that it's "definitely _not_ an apostrophe"? I'm not criticizing the script, just trying to understand the nomenclature
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