At 01:58 PM 3/10/03 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: >PS. Dennis, was it you who about a week ago claimed that "Shi'ite" >requires an inverted comma? I meant to contest that, but I've been busy >and lost track of the thread. I realize that many editorial styles do ask >for that, so your claim is not incorrect, but I also believe it's a bad >convention based on faulty and inconsistent reasoning, and it ought to be >resisted. (Maybe you already know what I'm getting at.)
I don't know; it's Time Magazine's stylebook, and is followed by several publications. Chicago is very conservative in refusing the original diacritical marks, so they spell it shiite, but I've never actually seen it in newspapers or magazines that way -- always shi'ite with the "6"-style mark (if that's what you call an inverted comma -- but I think of an inverted comma as the "9"-style mark). So tell me more. What were you getting at? :) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
