On 05/04/18 18:12, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
>> > On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> > > Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence
>>> > > on
>>> > > a comma before the "and" before the last item in a
On 05/04/18 18:53, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:12:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
>
>>> But again this comes down to another moan of mine - why is "The Queen's
>>> English" considered "correct", while let's say Yorkshire
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 18:12:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
> > But again this comes down to another moan of mine - why is "The Queen's
> > English" considered "correct", while let's say Yorkshire Dialect is
> > considered "wrong", when
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:47:43 BST Wol's lists wrote:
> On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on
> > a comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it
> > gets in the way and introduces
On 05/04/18 12:23, Mick wrote:
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote:
On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote:
180402 Dale wrote:
After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not
one.
Something
On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on a
comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it gets in
the way and introduces ambiguity - the infamous Oxford comma.
But that's a whole new can of worms.
On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote:
> > On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote:
> > > 180402 Dale wrote:
> > >> After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not
> > >> one.
> > >> Something I
On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote:
> On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote:
> > 180402 Dale wrote:
> >> After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one.
> >> Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do.
> >> I only put one after a comma
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