Talk:demo'

Request for verification
I've seen 'phone:, 'plane:, and 'bus:, but never anything with a final apostrophe like this. Can anyone confirm/cite? Equinox ◑ 18:07, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm. The plural "demo's" is not hard to cite using b.g.c., but (1) it may just be the grocer's apostrophe, and (2) even if not, it's not obvious to me that the singular would be "demo'" and not, say, "demo." or something. I don't think there's any way to cite "demo'" using any of the Google searches, though other corpora might be brought to bear; Wikisource, perhaps? —Ruakh TALK 20:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC)


 * BTW, final apostrophes do see use in o': and in eye dialect — don':, mo':, fo':, etc. Those differ in that they're all just eliding a final consonant, but given the final o, I can kind of imagine that it might get borrowed over for demo: as well. —Ruakh TALK 16:32, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh TALK 17:20, 26 December 2009 (UTC)