Why is there an apostrophe in Hallowe’en?
One early spelling of “Halloween” was “All Hallows’ Even (Even = evening). The “all” and “s” were dropped, “hallows’ ”
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The Editor’s Toolkit: OneLook Reverse Dictionary
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Punctilious Punctuation: Single or Double Quotation Marks
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