Archive for September 26th, 2007
Basic Rules of Punctuation
Basic Rules of Punctuation
Like many of the so-called “laws” of grammar, the rules for using punctuation would never hold up in court. These rules, in fact, are conventions that have changed over the centuries. They vary across national boundaries (American punctuation, followed here, differs from British practice) and even from one writer to the next.
Hyphens perish as English marches on
Hyphens perish as English marches on
About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
