On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:16:05 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > ...unlike grocers' apostrophe's, which crop up everywhere and are far > > more grating for me. > > Agreed, except that I think you mean greengrocers'.
Both are valid. Greengrocers' is the more common, grocers' is shorter. When you are paid by the word, the difference is important :) > I also find that > commas seem to be thrown at random into a piece of prose in the > apparent hope that a few will land where they might do some good. I know what you mean, but that is more a matter of style than rules. I have been criticised by editors for using too many and too few. > Even > Penrose is sometimes guilty of that. And don't start me on the > egregious Oxford comma. I wouldn't dare. > Nor on the German insistence on separating the > verb from the object with a comma, as though the action could proceed > without something to act on. Different language, different rules. Put another way, I don't speak German so I don't care :) -- Neil Bothwick Cross a tagline and a tribble? You get a full HD...
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