RE: Wanted: Opinions on a grammar book

[peter -at- galley -dot- ie]

>Depends on whether you also noticed and laughed (as I did) when half-way thru the book, the authors announced that, 
>because the primary influence on English changed from England to US, they'd change to American English for the rest of 
>the book -- and then they changed spelling but still used British-style quote punctuation.
>
>Taken to that level, yeah - weird and frightening!   ;-)
>-Sue Gallagher


Understandable - American punctuation is just plain weird !

I am forced to use Americam spelling, but refuse to use the punctuation.

I'd dispute the bit about the primary influence changing - I think the US just has a dialect of English; Canada has another.

Peter


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