apostrophizirig

In reading “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins, I discovered the word apostrophizirig. I made note of the word and today I took a moment to find out what it meant.

What I discovered is that this is a scan error. The RIG at the end should be an NG, and the word is apostrophizing, meaning to make or add an apostrophe to a word.

I kind of like apostrophizirig. It has a nice way of rolling off the tongue and it should be a word. It was disspointirig.