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Latest post Tue, Jul 21 2009 10:31 PM by MrPedantic. 4 replies.
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Anonymous  +  828912 Tue, 21 Jul 09 04:55 PM
underline/Italicize [computer of course], or quotes??
Kooyeen  +  828969 Tue, 21 Jul 09 09:34 PM
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Philip  +  828979 Tue, 21 Jul 09 09:52 PM
Old fashioned, but it works for me:

 

Quotes for titles of short stories, movies, plays, TV shows, songs, poems and articles in magazines;

 

Italics (or underlining --- really old-fashioned) for books, magazines, dictionaries, encyclopedias and newspapers.

 

If I've left anything out, a handy rule of thumb:  if it is a self-contained publication, use italics; if it is a part of something else, use quotes.

 

 

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Mr Wordy  +  828989 Tue, 21 Jul 09 09:55 PM
Either italics or quotes seem fine to me. The idea of underlining a movie title seems very strange to me, but I seem to remember from last time a similar question was asked that it's viewed as acceptable by some. Perhaps it's an AmE/BrE difference, or perhaps I'm misremembering what was said.

 

 

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MrPedantic  +  829025 Tue, 21 Jul 09 10:31 PM
There is some variation; the Times and the Oxford University Press set film titles in italic.

 

Some might use underlining where italics aren't available, e.g. in handwritten texts.

 

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