{"id":51853,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-does-an-apostrophe-in-a-name-mean-examples-dartagnan-the-three-musketeers-and-flar-dragonflight"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:38:11","slug":"what-does-an-apostrophe-in-a-name-mean-examples-dartagnan-the-three-musketeers-and-flar-dragonflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-does-an-apostrophe-in-a-name-mean-examples-dartagnan-the-three-musketeers-and-flar-dragonflight\/","title":{"rendered":"What does an apostrophe in a name mean? Examples: D&#8217;Artagnan &#8211; The Three Musketeers and F&#8217;lar &#8211; Dragonflight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about Dragonflight, but D&#8217;Artagnan was a living person and the apostrophe means in French language usually a left out vowel. &#8220;De Artagnan&#8221;- From Artagnan.<\/p>\n<p>The French language has a different system about vowels than the English language. So if most words end with a spoken vowel (usually e in the end), will lead to a shortened contraction bound by an apostrophe.<\/p>\n<p>de Aria &#8211; d&#8217;Aria (from Aria) quelque un &#8211; quelqu&#8217;un &#8211; someone jusque \u00e0 &#8211; jusqu&#8217;\u00e0 &#8211; until ce est &#8211; c&#8217;est<\/p>\n<p>It usually is used &#8211; as you can see &#8211; with &#8220;de&#8221;, &#8220;ce&#8221; and &#8220;que&#8221; &#8211; which are often used in a sentence in the French language. Also, this is for a more fluent language when speaking, so the syntax keeps intact.<\/p>\n<p>English language takes the contraction from the following word: I will &#8211; I&#8217;ll I have &#8211; I&#8217;ve I am &#8211; I&#8217;m I had\/I would &#8211; I&#8217;d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about Dragonflight, but D&#8217;Artagnan was a living person and the apostrophe means in French language usually a left out vowel. &#8220;De Artagnan&#8221;- From Artagnan. The French language has a different system about vowels than the English language. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-does-an-apostrophe-in-a-name-mean-examples-dartagnan-the-three-musketeers-and-flar-dragonflight\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}