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Is it still correct to write 'phone, or is phone without an apostrophe now acceptable?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.'Phone - with an opening apostrophe - is still acceptable whether used as a noun or a verb. However, in the natural way of things, such 'elaborations' are slowly disappearing. Of all people, those of my generation would probably be the most likely to retain these...however, it would never even occur to me to use the apostrophised format! Forget it, basically, is my advice.