[stylist] Desperate style/grammar/punctuation question

[Donna Hill]

Lori,
Thanks. I figured, if anyone knew, it would be you.
Donna
 

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Subject: Re: [stylist] Desperate style/grammar/punctuation question

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 
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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