Lewis filted: Incidentally, is it true that in the US, I should ... last sentence as ... in reality an elided "British)." ...? Yes, the American's have a very stupid idea of how to deal with punctuation around quotes. But some of us

(when you see a ? mark, it should be a 'quote' mark or an apostrophe.) -) Problems with the ISO code used for the apostrophe mark, I think. The European Screenwriters Manifesto One hundred and twenty five writers from all over Europe

between "active" and "pro-active?" It's a backwards construction, in response to "reactive." Yup. "Active" should be the oposite to "reactive," but many injustices aren't active; rather,

Hi, Recently I have been asked by one of my adult students about the use of "my" in a sentence: ... Is there any chance of me/I borrowing your type-writer? Can somebody give me some hints to answer this student? Thanks The sentence

Source: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html#preposition Non-Errors (Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.) Split infinitives For the hyper-critical, ³to boldly go where no man has

I can't comment on particular cases, but in general the ... lexicographers. I agree that the results are often very strange. Which suggests to me that there are systemic problems with how the Scrabble dictionary is compiled. The effect is to

I'd like to say something like the following: I won't add my TWO BITS WORTH to this controversy. What is the correct form? . two bits' worth . two-bits worth or some other? Usage varies, and there's no decisive answer to your

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If you go to the AUE materials, CJ, and search ... I'd say that's about as good as you're gonna get. Thanks, Bob. That was actually quite helpful. For a change. BTW, Americans call them "quotation marks." I dislike calling

} Are there any clues or fuzzy rules which can help recognizing a word } containing 's', 'z', 'x' and so on? You're talking about reducing the (z) sounds to written English, right? (The (s) sounds probably aren't