What is the meaning of Apologetic_apostrophe?

An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.

A similar apostrophe added to a present participle of the -in form in English or in Scots, producing -in', according to the emic notion that the /ŋ/ is always contracted (as opposed to the forms coexisting allophonically).

Source: wiktionary.org

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