Arcadian Rises    726533 Thu, 30 Oct 03 07:35 PM "Doesn't it seem silly to put quotes around a single ... "quotes?" I can't believe the rule applies to question "marks"." "Good thing, because it doesn't. The American rule applies to commas and periods, not to question marks." Does the rule extend to paranthesis? It should, because it seems awkward to end a sentence with something between paranthesis, when it would make more sense to start a new sentence with the information given between paranthesis. After all, the purpose of paranthesis is to interrupt the flow of the sentence. Arcadian Rises Commas, Question Marks, Sentences, Countries, United States, American, Punctuation

	R H Draney    726611 Thu, 30 Oct 03 08:48 PM Arcadian Rises filted: "Does the rule extend to paranthesis? It should, because it seems awkward to end a sentence with something between paranthesis, ... with the information given between paranthesis. After all, the purpose of paranthesis is to interrupt the flow of the sentence." Google count alert: parenthesis 921,000 paranthesis 8,050 parentheses 2,570,000 parantheses 11,500 The ratios are well below Donna's threshold (1) for typo-vs-alternative, but that's still a lot more of A.R.'s version than I expected to see...nearly all the first page of hits for the "para-" spellings appear to refer to programming languages, so perhaps this is some peculiar techie blind spot..r (1) threshhold 7,950,000 threshold 55,100 This is one case where logic seems to have won out over aesthetics.. R H Draney Sentences, Languages

	K. Edgcombe    726688 Thu, 30 Oct 03 09:37 PM "(1) threshhold 7,950,000 threshold 55,100" I find that extraordinary. I have never seen the first spelling, and I see a fair number of web sites both literate and illiterate. Are you sure Google hasn't taken one its funny turns? Katy K. Edgcombe Spelling, Writing

	mUs1Ka    726689 Thu, 30 Oct 03 09:44 PM "(1) threshhold 7,950,000 threshold 55,100" "I find that extraordinary. I have never seen the first spelling, and Isee a fair number of web sites both literate and illiterate. Are you sureGoogle hasn't taken one its funny turns?" I just googled and got: threshold 5,240,000 threshhold 37,200 m. mUs1Ka Spelling, Writing

	Bill Bonde the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack    726706 Thu, 30 Oct 03 10:33 PM "Does the rule extend to paranthesis? It should, because it seems awkward to end a sentence with something between paranthesis, ... with the information given between paranthesis. After all, the purpose of paranthesis is to interrupt the flow of the sentence." I've decided that the full stop goes inside the parenthesis ,which then makes it confusing, and generally causes me to remove the parentheses. Bill Bonde the... Sentences

	R H Draney    726813 Thu, 30 Oct 03 10:54 PM mUs1Ka filted: Sorry...copied them down the wrong way round...the double-H *does* occur more often in "withholding", which may have blinded me.. I found 542 for "filted"...some occurrences (from among those that are not clearly misspellings) appear to originate from an odd erroneous backformation from "filter", but the references to "filted yarns" have me wondering if there's some obscure technical meaning..r R H Draney Business, References, Career, Apologies

	Arcadian Rises    726741 Thu, 30 Oct 03 10:56 PM "Arcadian Rises filted:" Me too. Actually I used those "alternative" versions inadvertedly. For singular I use "parenthesis" and for plural "parentheses", which was not the case in my quoted message. Anyway, those were not the worst mistake I made in that message. What troubles me most is that my "interjection" has nothing to do with the rule Donna mentioned. My point was that IMO a sentence should not end witha phrase, or even another sentence between parentheses. I hope I got it right this time. nearly all Arcadian Rises Plurals, Mistakes, Sentences

	Peter Moylan    727108 Fri, 31 Oct 03 03:55 AM "Are they called carets? I thought the caret was" ^. is "greater than". And there's my/the British way of positioning full stops.[/nq] "Agreed. In this context they're usually called "angle brackets"." Sorry, that was a thinko on my part, caused by the OP calling them "carrots". I too would go with "angle brackets". Sometimes I'll call them "chevrons", but properly speaking that term should be reserved for the doubled-up version. Peter Moylan (Email Removed) http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software) Peter Moylan Context, Friendships, Speaking, Chat, Apologies