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Full Stop....... How rude !

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  1. lolimac

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    I couldn't agree more Scrunge....................................
     
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      I've just taken the full stop button out of the keyboard so i don't offend any one
       
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        I'm offended by that and shall report you to KAS - Keyboard Abuse Society. :nonofinger:
         
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          Good thing they don't have to learn the morse code!
           
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            I've just had reason to check the full stop regarding speech marks and found this below.....

            Consider the following sentence:

            One meaning of vis-a-vis is "in relation to".

            Should the full stop be inside the closing quotation mark or outside it?

            Well, in US English, the full stop goes inside the closing quotation mark in this sentence. In British English, it is placed outside.
             
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              That's correct if the quote is inside a sentence but not if the quotes is stand-alone. So to have a quote on its own becomes the sentence.

              Example 1.

              "The boy stood on the burning deck."

              Example 2.

              He said, "The boy stood on the burning deck".

              Signed:- Pedantic Grumpy Old Man.

              Of course, things change over the years - but I don't have to like it! :old:

              I remember, many years ago, when we were returning the Tristan da Cuhna back home after the volcano settled down, talking to one of the islander friends that I worked with about the English language. He said the hardest thing for him to learn was the word 'was' as they didn't have it in their vocabulary (English was their only language). In this country we use 'was' in the singular and 'were' in the plural. :noidea:

              Don't get me back onto the proper use of apostrophes! :loll:

              With apologies to your sense of propriety:-

              apostrophe.jpg
               
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                I agree @shiney I have always used an apostrophe as a possessive indicator and as to form a contraction such as "they're" and not needed in the contraction "goodbye". I know that business signage drops it to save money but you'd think they'd at least put it on their printed materials!
                 
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                  I have some photos I have taken of funny or silly signs with wrongly placed apostrophies. :doh:
                   
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