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Re: Is there such a thing as a 'Commonly accepted US and UK/Commonwealth Terms' list that is online and available to all? Should PDFs always be PDF's for a US audience, if it is a book?
Subject:Re: Is there such a thing as a 'Commonly accepted US and UK/Commonwealth Terms' list that is online and available to all? Should PDFs always be PDF's for a US audience, if it is a book? From:Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Technical Writing Plus <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:18:33 -0700
PDF's would be wrong anyway unless it's possesive.
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Technical Writing Plus <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net
> wrote:
> Copyediting a book for a US audience. I like the styling of *PDFs* more
> than
> I like *PDF's*. But, this kind of thing can be important to the audience.
>
> And words such as 'subentry' should be 'sub entry', and 'AutoCorrect'
> should
> be 'Auto Correct', right?
>
> Is there a reference online for this stuff? Thanks.
>
> Jim Jones
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