By Abbreviations, Dates

Strictly speaking, to indicate date ranges (or numerical ranges) you should use a en dash, not a hyphen. If you use a dash then you should not use "to" as well. As far as "from" is concerned, I personally don't like the style "from January 2 - March 1". If think...

Hi everybody, this is my first posting to the forum and I would welcome your assistance with the following problem. I work for a national company with regional offices. My general manager asked the Area HR Manager in a different zone (the zone handling a series of complaints against managers in...

This text is a case study in why abbreviations should NEVER be used in business communications! Here are my suggestions:Delivery time -- I presume that this is the title for the next two lines belowETD Pluritec premises by week 9. -- Estimated time of delivery to the Pluritec...

Hello Mika, Welcome to the forums. Usually, a cover letter begins a little more gently. Something like: I'm writing to apply for the position of Financial Advisor that you have advertised for in the Grammar Times. I believe my experience and aptitude make me an excellent candidate for this...

Mister Micawber wrote:Regarding the bill of lading: besides the cargo receipt date which we discussed on the phone in the morning, the L/C number is also incorrect. It should be ***. Please advise your forwarder to make the necessary amendment.I don't know what L/C means, offhand, so I have...

Regarding the bill of lading: besides the cargo receipt date which we discussed on the phone in the morning, the L/C number is also incorrect. It should be ***. Please advise your forwarder to make the necessary amendment.I don't know what L/C means, offhand, so I have not extended it. It is...

SHALL AND WILL IT is unfortunate that the idiomatic use, while it comes by nature to southern Englishmen (who will find most of this section superfluous), is so complicated that those who are not to the manner born can hardly acquire it; and for them the section is in danger of being...

--- There was formerly a respectable tradition (17-19c) of using the apostrophe for noun plurals, especially in loanwords ending in a vowel (as in We do confess Errata's, Leonard Lichfield, 1641, and Comma's are used, Philip Luckcombe, 1771) and in the consonants s, z, ch, sh, (as in waltz's and...

Goodman wrote: Fleder, "Mr Tom" in British English- Are you sure of that? Or you just think you are correct? "Mr." is the abbrivation of "mister" and all abbrivations by rule should have a "period" or "stop" at the end, no matter it's BrE or AmE. It's like "F.B.I" and "The U.N.". Don't be...

spelling errors highlighted in this colour other comments/amendments in pink. You are also being rather random in your use of capital letters. It seems very lazy to use the same job description word for word each time. CURICULAM VITATE (personal information removed by...