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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
Traditionally, curly (or so-called “smart”) quotes have had a use distinct from straight (also called “regular” or the not-so-nice “dumb”) quotes. Pairs of the former are used to enclose quoted material—and they’re “smart” enough to know when to open a quote and when to close it, hence the moniker—while the latter should be reserved for, say, the s
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Donna Lowe added 4mo ago
•Use “s” for all singular possessive nouns, e.g., Chris’s, Katniss’s.
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Use italics for news websites and blogs (essentially anything that produces regular, dated content and is in other words analogous to a newspaper or magazine), and quotation marks for articles;
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•In Icelandic names, siblings have different surnames—typically patronymic, with a person’s name rooted in the given name of their father.
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Donna Lowe added 4mo ago
Bryan A. Garner’s Garner’s Modern English Usage, also known to many in the editing world as the bible
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two pretty straightforward examples: The duo is recording an album (they’re recording it as a unit), but The duo are going their separate ways (both members, as individual people, are planning to embark on different journeys;
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Donna Lowe added 4mo ago
For a noun or other word that traditionally wouldn’t take a verb form, use a hyphen plus ing to create the verb form if the word ends in a vowel
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•Do not use an apostrophe when a word is primarily descriptive rather than possessive: e.g., homeowners association, kids department, teachers college, writers room. [The word is acting more like an adjective than a possessive noun.]
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