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Re: Using single quotes to create a new 'noun'
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Christopher Pipe
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Oct 28, 2003 04:12 PST
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:: 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.
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:: The phrase is 'future proof'.
The only reason I can think of for putting quotation marks around this
adjectival phrase would be by way of apology for using a neologism, but I
think the term is established quite well enough not to need them.
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Christopher Pipe
Watermark (Cromer, Norfolk)
editing, proofreading, indexing, design for print
(especially for
- Christian theology & devotion
- classical & early music
- literary history, criticism & biography
- English church & local history)
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