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Subject:Pet peeves et al From:Rod Kennett <rkennet -at- IBM -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:43:25 -0400
All those sports announcers and play by play people who insist on using
adjectives instead of adverbs.
On the subject of aluminum vs aluminium. The first is US English the
second the original. <g>.
On the question of punctuation in quotation marks, Fowlers Modern
English Usage confuses the issue further by encouraging both styles,
which he calls 'Conventional' and 'Logical'. The conventional being the
period or comma inside the quotes. However he concludes as follows:
"The conventional system is more favoured by editors' and publishers'
rules. But there are important exceptions, and it is to be hoped that
these will make their influence felt. The conventional system flouts
common sense, and it is not easy for the plain man to see what merit it
is supposed to have to outweigh that defect; even the more pleasing
appearance claimed for it is not likely to go unquestioned.
There, that cleared that up.
Rod Kennett.
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