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The Accidental Apostrophe

  • Nataliaцитирует3 года назад
    It was a Greek librarian called Aristophanes (not the playwright), working in the great library of Alexandria in the third century BC, who introduced dots between phrases, to help the reader know where to pause.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует6 лет назад
    I’m inclined to think it’s something in between and would go with St Augustine – ‘use any method you choose’.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует6 лет назад
    short prepositions such as to, at, on, in. Capitalize any that are four letters or more, such as over, under, behind, along, through. (Many pundits say five letters or more, but most versions of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest break this rule, so I’m going for four.)
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует7 лет назад
    Gertrude Stein was undeniably right when she wrote that a rose is a rose is a rose.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует7 лет назад
    Molly Bloom’s famous interior monologue, which ends Ulysses, runs in my Penguin edition to sixty-three pages
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует7 лет назад
    St Isidore of Seville deserves an honourable mention, as does Alcuin of York, intellectual mover and shaker at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. After that, things began to settle down, although illustrated medieval manuscripts allowed their scribes individual variations, touches of personal taste and whimsy.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует7 лет назад
    It was a Greek librarian called Aristophanes (not the playwright), working in the great library of Alexandria in the third century BC, who introduced dots between phrases, to help the reader know where to pause.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновцитирует7 лет назад
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