'用英语怎么说?老听外国人说‘是类似prime的发音或者是crime的发音?

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' 用英语怎么说?老听外国人说‘ 是类似prime的发音 或者是crime的发音?

Answer 1

The apostrophe ( ’ ,often rendered as ' ) is a punctuation mark,and sometimes a diacritic mark,in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets.In English,it serves two main purposes—the omission of one or more letters -also known as a contraction- (as in doesn’t for does not) and the marking of possessives (as in the cat’s whiskers),though usage in forming certain plurals is sometimes accepted.According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED),the word comes ultimately from Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος [προσῳδία] (hē apóstrophos [prosōidía],“[the accent of] ‘turning away’,or elision”),through Latin and French.[1]
The apostrophe is different from the closing single quotation mark (usually rendered identically but serving a different purpose),and from the similar-looking prime ( ′ ),which is used to indicate measurement in feet or arcminutes,as well as for various mathematical purposes) and ʻokina ( ʻ ) (which represents a glottal stop in Polynesian languages).
LZ说的“PRIME”发音的,应该就是英语中用来表示英尺的符号.