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What I want to know is why American college students nearly uniformly insist on using the British style (much as they uniformly insist on using "he" as the gender-neutral pronoun). Is it part of a curriculum they're all getting in high school?
Commented May 25, 2011 on “Logical Punctuation” and Quotation Marks: In Defense of CMOS at The Subversive Copy Editor Blog
“Logical Punctuation” and Quotation Marks: In Defense of CMOS
I must admit I was taken aback by David Marsh’s blog post last week at Mind Your Language. In “‘The British Style’? ‘The American Way?’ They Are Not So Different,” he explains that British style for punctuating quotations is not as “logical” as popularly thought. Am I the only one who didn’t k...
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