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 | Watching TV on Wednesday afternoon I spotted not one but two instances of missing apostrophes during a show and a commercial. I'm sure you encounter similar things all the time. I'm going to take the no apostrophe side for a moment (which is hard for me to do since the absence of needed apostrophes is so distracting to me). In addition to the keystroke savings I mentioned (tongue in cheek) in this original 2007 blog post, I must admit that it's not particularly difficult to know what word was intended when the apostrophe is omitted. Dont is obviously don't. And context can usually reveal the intended meaning when I see its instead of it's or lets rather than let's. OK, that's all the support I can muster. I think I'll probably be firmly on the keep the apostrophe and teach people to use it correctly side of the argument for a long, long time. Although I will admit that when texting I will skip the apostrophes sometimes. | |
Curl Your Quotes
Today's software makes it easier than it used to be to make sure you use curly quotes.
| Dash It All
Do you know the differences in hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes -- not only in appearance but in how they are used?
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Recently my daughter was intrigued when I showed her the codes for inserting a proper em dash and an ellipsis in her school papers. But, like a lot of us, knowing the proper way to use an ellipsis is a bit trickier.
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Not necessarily a punctuation mark, an asterisk is a frequently used symbol that has specific uses in literature, math, computing, and other fields.
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