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Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler wrote:
> Don't you think the single quote 's occurin' relatively common in the
> English language, 'though it has another meaning there?

And in visual basic, ' begins a comment which extends to end of line.
Your example of single quotes in English demonstrates that its use is
to indicate elided characters, which is not going to carry over to
someone trying to understand Ada.