[stylist] Desperate style/grammar/punctuation question

[Barbara Hammel]

I think you put the spelling like you did in single quotes.  Come to think 
of it, I'm not sure either.
Barbara




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-----Original Message----- 
From: Donna Hill
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 4:28 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: [stylist] Desperate style/grammar/punctuation question

Hi Friends,

OK, I'm stumped. I'm sure I'm doing this wrong, but can't find an
appropriate commentary on it.



If you are quoting someone who is spelling a word, how is that written?  For
the moment, I'm doing it like this:

"he spelled dog 'd-a-u-g.'"



I'm using an apostrophe as an inner quote here and the hyphen to separate
the letters, but I don't have them italicized or anything. I think I've read
that writing letters of the alphabet should be either italicized or placed
in quotes and that plurals of a letter -- like straight "A"s -- should not
use an apostrophe, but should have the letter in italics or quotes and the s
in regular font.



Any guidance on this would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Donna













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