• Re: why 'used to'? think about it?

  (Two examples, one from Jane Austen, one from Dickens, contributed by Donna Richoux) Animal Farm was written 130 years after the Austen quotes and 100 years after the Dickens quotes. It's easy
  alt.usage.english by jacques guy 5 yr 231 days ago Literature, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages

• Re: why 'used to'? think about it?

  /A Tale of Two Cities/ Animal Farm was written 130 years after the Austen quotes and 100 years after the Dickens quotes. It's easy ... ago but less so that it was "perfectly ordinary" a mere
  alt.usage.english by donna richoux 5 yr 231 days ago

• Re: why 'used to'? think about it?

  Charles/A Tale of Two Cities/ Animal Farm was written 130 years after the Austen quotes and 100 years after the Dickens quotes. It's easy to imagine that it was common long ago but less so
  alt.usage.english by evan kirshenbaum 5 yr 231 days ago Expressions

• Re: Chinese Burns?

  . (a) is the obvious, original meaning based literally on the Great Wall. And I suggest the quotes up to and including 1941 have that meaning. The quotes from 1979 relate to meaning (b) and, I contend, relate
  alt.usage.english by john dean 5 yr 164 days ago Metaphors, Countries, Asia, China, Activities

• Re: Two usage questions

  . By the way, for a few John Kenneth Galbraith quotes, see http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John Kenneth Galbraith/ . One of my favorite Galbraith quotes, which isn't there, is "One of the nice
  alt.usage.english by bob cunningham 5 yr 341 days ago Possessives, Apostrophes, Countries, United States, France, Punctuation

• Re: Stripes

  quotes may give some idea about what attributes a striped-assed ape has that make it suitable for a simile. But one person Google quotes seemed in doubt on that score, asking And just how, precisely
  alt.usage.english by bob cunningham 5 yr 289 days ago Pronunciation, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States, American, Usages, Speaking, Adjectives, Expressions

• Re: Does the " go after the period?

  , the punctuation of that sentence goes inside the quotes. If within a sentence you quote a few words ...
  outside the quotes. However, in direct speech as written in a story, punctuation tends to always go
  alt.usage.english by stewart gordon 5 yr 143 days ago Articles, Universities, Quotation Marks, Sentences, Speaking, Writing, Punctuation, Students, Speeches, Schools, Direct Speech

• Quote tidier

  about it: the reduction to one line of excessive white space between quotes; and the substitution ...
  tidier" is a command to make quotes more tidy. In that case, Miss Thistlebottoms might insist
  alt.usage.english by bob cunningham 5 yr 92 days ago Regards, Adjectives, Predicates

• Re: My son, the Pope?

  quotes, look }> to the Aramaic stuff, not the stuff printed in red letters. You }> want facts, look ...
  words like "composed" with a straight face and }> without scare quotes, we can talk
  alt.usage.english by r j valentine 6 yr 42 days ago Numbers, Dates, Spelling, Abbreviations, Translation, Context, Sentences, Countries, United Kingdom, Colours, Writing, Online, Students, Plants, Languages

• Re: Madness of Crocodile Dundee

  you know. The quotes are a recognizable indicator meaning "Here's a nickname!" I checked
  alt.usage.english by donna richoux 5 yr 307 days ago Quotation Marks, Countries, United States, American, Punctuation
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