Mignon Fogarty on Nostr: Old usage guides can be so entertaining. I just finished recording a piece for the ...
Old usage guides can be so entertaining. I just finished recording a piece for the Grammar Girl podcast about the Fowler Brothers' snarky take on quotation marks that I happened to stumble upon.
Here's a tiny teaser:
EXAMPLE OF A SENTENCE WITH QUOTATION MARKS:
John Smith, Esq., 'Chatsworth', Melton Road, Leamington.
ANALYSIS: The implication seems to be: living in the house that sensible people call 164 Melton Road, but one fool likes to call Chatsworth.
— The King's English, 1906
Here's a tiny teaser:
EXAMPLE OF A SENTENCE WITH QUOTATION MARKS:
John Smith, Esq., 'Chatsworth', Melton Road, Leamington.
ANALYSIS: The implication seems to be: living in the house that sensible people call 164 Melton Road, but one fool likes to call Chatsworth.
— The King's English, 1906