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===Apostrophes<span class="anchor" id="Foreign characters that resemble apostrophes"></span>===
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*Use [[straight apostrophe]]s ({{big|{{mxt|'}}}}), not [[curly apostrophe]]s ({{big|{{!mxt|’}}}}).{{efn|name=curlyq}} Do not use accent marks or [[backtick]]s ({{big|{{!mxt|`}}}}) as apostrophes.
*Templates such as {{tlx|`}} and {{tlx|`s}} are helpful when an apostrophe (or single quote) appears at the beginning or end of text in italics or bold, because italics and bold are themselves indicated by sequences of single quotes.
**When an apostrophe follows italicized text, {{tlx|'}} or {{tlx|'s}} can be used to additionally prevent the last letter of the right-leaning text from intersecting the apostrophe. Example: {{xt|the ''Iliad''{{'s}} themes}} (markup: {{nobreak|<code><nowiki>the ''Iliad''{{'s}} themes</nowiki></code>}}).
*Letters resembling apostrophes and curly quotes, such as the [[{{okina}}okina]] ({{mxt|{{okina}}}}{{snd}}inserted using {{tlx|okina}}), [[Saltillo (linguistics)|saltillo]] ({{mxt|{{saltillo}}}}{{snd}}{{tlx|saltillo}}), Hebrew [[ayin]] or Arabic ʿayn ({{mxt|{{ayin}}}}{{snd}}{{tlx|ayin}}), and Arabic [[hamza]] ({{mxt|{{hamza}}}}{{snd}}{{tlx|hamza}}), should be represented by those templates or by their respective [[Unicode]] characters.
**Templates cannot be used in article titles; use the corresponding Unicode character directly. Per [[WP:TITLESPECIALCHARACTERS]], also make a redirect from the ASCII form to aid searches. Forms without apostrophe-like characters are sometimes preferred by [[WP:COMMONNAME]] (e.g. [[Hawaii]] but not [[Keali{{okina}}i Reichel]]). 
*:{{crossref|pw=y|See also {{section link|Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles|Orthography, spelling and formatting}}}}
*For [[Wade–Giles]] romanizations of Mandarin Chinese, use {{tlx|wg-apos}}.
*For languages with [[ejective consonants]] and the like, use {{tlx|hamza}}.
*For the Cyrillic [[soft sign]], when indicated at all, use {{tlx|softsign}} or {{tlx|hamza}}.
*For usage of the possessive apostrophe, see {{section link||Possessives}}.
*For further treatment of apostrophe usage (possessive, elision, formation of certain plurals, non-English language issues), see the article [[Apostrophe]].