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F apostrophe

My friend Mel visited this weekend and introduced me to an avenue of vocabulary I've clearly been lacking: abbreviated expletive superlatives. For example, my friends' band doesn't just rock, and to say it "fucking rocks" would be tedious. Instead, their band f'rocks. (Pronounced "fuh-rocks.") And grandma, your lemonade is f'awesome ("fossom"). Mel insists that punctuation matters (understandably, since I'm always f'right, not a fright). Apparently the rule requires hyphens for combinations leading to unpronounceable consonant collisions: f-nasty and f-sucks. Use this new power sparingly. You wouldn't want to come across as f-stupid.