Well, you get the picture. And I decided 'twas nobler to share.
Why yes, it does pertain to the fact that yesterday was Talk Like Shakespeare Day:
All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare's time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamelt could say with sepreme apostrophic confidence: "Fie on't! O fie!"; "'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd"; and even "I am too much i' the sun" - the latter, incidentally, a clear case of a writer employing a new-fangled punctuation mark entirely for the sake of it, and condemning countless generations of serious long-haired actos to adopt a knowing expression and say i' - as if this actually added anything to the meaning.Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss.
Overthinkers everywhere, go read that book. *One person gets up to go read book*... oh wait, that's me :)

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