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Using single quotes to create a new 'noun'
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Oct 28, 2003 00:47 PST
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From: Jo Allen, j-@last-word.net
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 7:56:33 AM
I have just had to try to describe why I believed a phrase used
to describe a 'noun' (?) should be enclosed in single quotes and
simply couldn't justify my thinking.
The phrase is 'future proof'.
I would imagine its surely been used before.
I would have advised single quotes for first appearance in
article - then having established that both words were being used
together - not bothered with quotes for subsequent occurrences.
Or, as was the case with this - enclosed it in quotes in the
standfirst quote and left them off in the body copy.
I may have lost the plot here - I confess to bafflement. Can
anyone help?
Many thanks
Jo Allen
LastWord
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