Apostrophe

• The Apostrophe is a punctuation mark which denotes the absence of a letter, the plurals of characters and the possessive case of nouns.

History

• The history of the Apostrophe starts with Pietro Bembi, an Italian Printer, who used it when he printed an Edition of De Aetna (of (Mount) Etna) in 1496.
• In 1529, Geoffroy Tory, a French Printer, first used it in France, and he also invented the Cidilla and the Accent.
• It later appeared in England in the Sixteenth Century.