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Liz Potter on The ‘emphatic’ use of quotation marksHi Marian. I'm not an expert on punctuation, and those people do exist, but in my view it's a question of stylistic pref…
Marian on The ‘emphatic’ use of quotation marksI have an argument with a (would-be author) friend about the consistent use of inverted commas. I'm sure that if you use…
James A. Cox on Who’d a thunk it?The first I had ever seen it was in Mad Magazine, probably in the early 60s.
Liz Potter on bucket listThank you for your comment, Mick. The first recorded use of the term 'bucket list' is dated by the Oxford English Dictio…
Mick on bucket listSorry but I do not agree that it was coined by the writers of the movie as indicated above. It has been used previously…