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‘ U+2018, ‘ LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK ← ‗ [U+2017] General Punctuation ’ → [U+2019]

• ' (informal)

‘

1. Used as a quotation mark in some languages.
   1. ‘ ’
   2. ’ ‘
   3. ‚ ‘

Punctuation

• ʻ (Hawaiian ʻokina)

‘

1. Indicating the omission of the letters ac in the patronymic Mac-, or the letter c in the patronymic Mc-.
   • 1809, A Voyage to the Demerary, Containing a Statistical Account of the Settlements there, and of Those on the Essequebo, the Berbice, and Other Contiguous Rivers of Guyana‎^[1], London, →OCLC:

     PRINTED FOR RICHARD PHILLIPS, BRIDGE STREET, BLACKFRIARS, BY B. M‘MILLAN, BOW STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

   • 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VI, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (A Legend of Montrose), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 274:

     So saying, she sate down at a little distance upon the bench on which Allan M‘Aulay was placed, and tuning her clairshach, a small harp, about thirty inches in height, she accompanied it with her voice.

   • 1847, John Halliday, “Meggie M‘Givelry”, in The Rustic Bard, or, A Voice from the People; Being Miscellaneous Poems and Songs, Galashiels: James Brown, […], page 319:

     An’ Willie, the poet, o’ paper run scant, / Has spoilt a’ his auld minnie’s wa’s wi’ his scribblery, / Wi’ a burned stick end he has written a rant— / They’re black as the deevil wi’ Meggie M‘Givelry.

• Benjamin Drew (1871) “Punctuation”, in Hints and Helps for Those Who Write, Print, or Read, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard, […]; New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Dillingham, page 95: “A turned comma sometimes denotes the ac in Mac; as, M‘Donough.”