In addition to what these folks are saying, it seems to me that one would need to put the question mark outside the quotation marks in the first sentence, since it is not part of the title of the article, and is placed there to make the sentence

You know, I used to think that subject-verb number agreement depended on how many individuals were in the set refered to by the subject, but it seems to suck up to the head noun, instead, irregardless Nice! of logic. You can even say explicitly

I was going to say so too, but I wish he'd said "were". I take it everyone is objecting to my lack of quotation marks. If so, I apologise. No apology needed. I think they were complimenting you on revealing a deep truth about the

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? "John was all, like: Would it be possible to either include the entire quoted name or strip the quotation mark? I'm building up a serious case of unresolvedquotitis. I think "band camp" is a

Quoth Sara Moffat Lorimer: The standard usage in the UK (and, I believe, elsewhere ... (1)) is that, as a (regular) numeral, ¡million' is invariable. I see that as "OEmillion" with "OE" squished together. Is it my

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? Robert Bannister was all, like: I've never heard that put quite so well before..r I was going to say so too, but I wish he'd said "were". I take it everyone is objecting to my lack of

A friend aske me about words ending in -ngry. Are there any others than angry and hungry? This sounds like a very slight mutation of the riddle that caused such a mania a few years ago. Here's the entry in the Mini-FAQ: words ending in

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? "John was all, like: Would it be possible to either include the entire quoted name or strip the quotation mark? I'm building up a serious case of unresolvedquotitis. Evan Kirshenbaum + HP Laboratories

Caught in the act. Actually, I meant to put the phrases in quotes, but my hand must have slipped on the opening quotation mark, because I went back and checked and discvered that I had put an apostrophe at the beginning instead. The error was hard

There was a thread talking about "more than my job is worth", or words to that effect. I found the ... is worth". ( Em dash(?) simulated with double dash-space; periods moved outside quotation marks in expectation of constant-width