How do you pronounce the apostrophe in a formula?

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Sorry to bother you all with a trivial question. I'm a Belgian teacher and I'm struggling because I don't know how to read a formula in English. How do you pronounce the apostrophe in for example v'. In French we say 'prime'Can anyone help?
 

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