[stylist] Desperate style/grammar/punctuation question

Tue May 17 16:07:34 UTC 2011

Donna, you have the punctuation correct.  I note that it might be a different story if a question mark were involved, putting the question mark between the single and double quotes.  Thought on this has been changing recently, however, and you will find that the UK does it differently in many cases.
Lori

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Hammel <poetlori8 at msn.com>
To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Mon, May 16, 2011 10:24 pm
Subject: Re: [stylist] Desperate style/grammar/punctuation question

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 
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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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